PreLaw student interested in match schools

bluebayou
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 02:21:16 +0000

chanthor:

One of my biggest mistake in this college journey was visiting G’town with D21 near the end of freshman year. We were in the area anyway and she fell in love with it. As others have noted it is easy to fall in love with reach schools.

She is self studying for Sept ACT this summer. FWIW, her practice tests show 28-30 in Math and 32-35 for the other sections. If she can improve her composite ACT to 32+ then she will def apply to Richmond (and maybe WF) as a reach.

No hooks. She is an excellent varsity Lacrosse athlete, but I think we are too late for the recruiting game.

A 32 won’t be competitive for merit money at UR or WF; she’ll need to be in their top quartile for numbers. Run their NPC to see if you might qualify any need-based aid and whether the school is even affordable for your family.

The good news is that the math section is the easiest to increase with prep. (Hint: four math questions on trig, two of which are almost always right angles so the Pythagorean Thm will work.)

Good luck.