Scholarship money?

cesium55
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 03:02:05 +0000

A 3.78/3.95 GPA is only as “low” as your curriculum’s difficulty. Getting a 3.8 with a rigorous course load is not going to be a weak point in your application anywhere besides maybe at the absolute toughest schools to get into (Harvard, MIT, etc.).

Heck, my HS GPA was significantly lower than that (3.4ish??) but apparently my schedule/SATs/ECs were solid enough to land a sizable merit scholarship when I attended. I fully expect 8 college-level courses to more than make up for your daughter’s near-A average.

That said, it might be worth retaking the SAT again if it’s still possible. By no means is your daughter’s score low, but I’m thinking that an 800 in math should totally be doable for anyone who got a 5 on AP Calc AB by junior year, and raising the W score by the remaining 10 is definitely not outside the realm of possibility. Even if the CR score were to go down, having a 2400 super-score is probably a huge selling point for all universities (hey, what uni doesn’t want to take in a 2400 student to pad its stats?), and may help in getting additional merit aid. Your daughter’s guidance counselor should probably be able to weigh in on whether this reasoning is sound.