YAY, I’m first!
OK, I’ll reiterate my D19’s situation here, even though it’ll be old news to the folks on the regular thread.
She’s young - still 15 – and got a couple of Cs in freshman year and too many Bs, so she’s probably about 3.1 unweighted GPA right now. She’s taking two AP classes this year - first ones, as school doesn’t offer them before junior year. School doesn’t rank.
She got an 1180 on the SAT in August and will try to do better on the ACT in October, as her practice score on that test was the equivalent of about 100 points higher, SAT-wise.
We live in PA and won’t qualify for financial aid with an EFC of probably $30-35k. Well, we won’t qualify for financial aid at the schools likely to admit her - put it that way. But we’ll be seeking merit and probably falling back on the in-state PASSHE schools (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education), which are schools like West Chester, Bloomsburg, Slippery Rock, Millersville, Kutztown universities. Fine mid-tier institutions, but we are hoping to aim higher.
Has expressed interest in majoring in theater tech and enviro studies, but is undecided. She is really good at English and average at math - it’s a very wide gap. We are pushing her away from English-type majors, though, as that area is what both of her parents are in and we don’t want her to be unhappy and struggle all her life to make a decent living 