Question about grades and college admissions--what is really required?

Your daughter sounds similar to my daughter, though yours is perhaps a bit more competitive. Northwestern and Georgetown, I would say don’t even bother. For the other schools you list, your daughter is a maybe. My daughter (a current senior) will probably apply to Oxy, but I’m not holding my breath for an acceptance. Our daughters will likely get accepted to a few UCs but not UCLA, UCB, or UCSB (but mine did apply to UCSB).

But my daughter has already received acceptances to four schools, with good merit scholarships! Two of them I had never heard of before this fall, but that’s because they are not on the West Coast.

Your daughter is competitive for many schools, but as I’ve learned in the last several months, there are tons of “average excellent students,” so you’ll need to broaden your search.

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