Rolling Schools/Safeties

Apollo6
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:13:58 +0000

soozievt, Would Beloit with an incoming student body with median stats of 1250/1600 or 27/36 ACT be a place that the OP’s daughter would find sufficiently intellectually stimulating? I ask this because I had planned to take my 2012 D to visit Beloit but after visiting St Olaf, Carleton, Macalester and Grinnell, she decided she did not want to visit a school with such low median stats - even if they did offer good merit aid and interesting programs. She thought Grinnell was the best match for her interests of the above schools. How can you tell how low is too low for a high stats kid? Are schools that accept 40-50% of their applicants “safeties” if your kid’s stats are in the top 25-35% of their applicants?