level 5 (3.7 uw, 2370 SAT): Rutgers (13k/year merit), NYU, and UPenn!! (basically a miracle, but I did have a great alumni letter 
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@shadyconcepts That’s amazing! I know more than a few alum’s children who did not get accepted with pretty impressive transcripts. Admittedly, I don’t know those students’ SAT scores and your’s are strong. You must have had some great ECs and essays. Good luck and enjoy!
Level 5: USC and Tufts are the biggies, plus money/honors college at Pitt, Northeastern, and UVM
3.65UW/4.0W
31 ACT
Accepted:
University of Michigan LSA
USC Marshall
Rochester
Emory
Waitlisted:
Pomona
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Boston College
@bsalum I believe it was also my demonstrated interest - after getting deferred ED from Penn, I continued to update them periodically and wrote them a letter. To everyone reading this, that stuff really matters!
Bookmarking this thread and crossing my fingers, congratulations to all of you!
I had a 3.7 with a shitty class ranking (14/72), and mild test scores (30ACT) but got into Vassar, Trinity, NYU, BU, Suny Stony Brook, Binghamton, Sarah Lawrence and UVM.
Level 5 - Cornell, Dartmouth, NYU etc.
3.67, 34 act superscore
UNC Chapel Hill (attending)
UGA honors program + 10k a year scholarship
UT-knoxville honors engineering with 18k a year scholarship
Ole Miss (practically a full ride there)
NC State with an invitation to apply to honors college and scholars program (did not apply to those)
denied from some top 20 schools but it was expected; got into my number one school though and will be attending UNC in the fall!
Level 5 (W)
Virginia Tech (attending)
South Carolina off wait list
WVU
Alabama
This a great thread!! Congrats to so many of you attending great schools.
My own son will fit right into this category. He is Mr. 90.2 man. A- in almost everything. He’s usually good for a B or B+ once a semester, and will offset that with one A every semester, ha so predictable. The rest all A-'s. His end of the year grades on his transcripts are A- in every class.
Only took 1 honors as a freshman, all honors since then. No AP. Next year as a senior 2 AP classes. He’s kind of a late bloomer in everything.
His class rank stinks compared to some of the posters in this thread though, he might only be top 35% out of 385 kids. So, if schools consider class rank very important he is screwed.
29 ACT first time, and waiting on SAT scores still.
I’ll update this thread when we decide where he’s applying in the fall and let you know the results.
I wish your son the best of luck! He seems like a very bright student! @RightCoaster
Got into UC Berkeley, UChicago, USC w 1/2 tuition merit, BU w 20k merit, and Northeastern w 30k merit Level 5!! 3.9 UC GPA
@nishaus Congrats! What was your UW GPA?
This is my new favorite thread! My sons are finishing their sophomore and junior years of high school, and I plan to contribute to this thread in the fall as we apply to various schools with GPA and SAT scores that aren’t off the charts. Thank you for this thread!
Level 5 (3.5) got into UW- Madison
Level 5 (But I went to one of the top prep schools in the country and I got mostly As my junior and senior year)
Accepted: Lehigh (ED II and Triple Legacy), Fordham (EA with merit), and UVM (EA with merit)
College Transfer for Fall 2016 (3.5 college GPA)
Accepted: GW, NYU, Fordham, American
Rejected: Barnard
Still waiting for Tufts
My D is level 4 - 3.37 GPA, 1840 SAT, one AP class, lots of theater ECs
Accepted: Merit Aid at all except U of O
Willamette
U of Puget Sound
Lawrence
Beloit
Otterbein
U of Oregon
Colorado State
College of Idaho
Pacific University
Rejected:
Emerson
Update: I got into Marist for Spring 2017!
It’s unaffordable, though.
It’s been many years, but I got into UC Irvine, U of Oregon, UVA, and Notre Dame with level 4 grades, including some 'C’s and a ‘D’ academic coursework. Got to my freshman year and promptly failed half my classes.
And after getting my PhD, I now teach at a UC.