<p>my-3-sons, which schools gave your kid merit money$?</p>
<p>My S had a 3.3 and his school does not rank or give percentiles. His SAT was >2100 (I added the Writing SAT II to his SAT). He attends WUSTL and got into Wisconsin from out of state (Legacy however). He is a “regular” guy. No exceptional awards, ec’s or hook. Just your basic hs kid…a few clubs, a varsity team (not captain) and a typical hs job during the summers. If the 3.3 includes rigorous courses I believe it will not be the impediment one would believe it to be given the stats of many of the kids represented here. Regular, bright kids who challenge themselves ( I can’t remember the acronym often used here to describe such kids) WILL get into great colleges. I believe (and this S was my second to go through this process) that the more important thing is finding the schools that are the right ones (and there are always more than 1) for your child. And I, for one, believe that the one person that can make that decision is your child. If they find schools that “touch” them, that will come through in the application.</p>
<p>Heck with the rankings, it’s more about the kid wanting a school IMHO, than “trying to figure out ways to get schools to want my kid”.</p>
<p>Dudedad-right back at you! Which school will my daughter grace with her presence! Ratings be dam#ed!</p>
<p>dstark-Northeastern and Loyola Chicago. Also admitted to UMaryland College Park Scholars Program. He attends UMiami.</p>
<p>Is there a tuition break if you get into the Maryland scholars program? I take it he did not get anything from Miami.</p>
<p>Point I was making is let the kids, not parents, own the process, and let’em go where they’ll be happy. Two threads today about unhappy freshmen quite a downer…</p>
<p>I was looking at the data for the high school, trying to discern gross patterns.</p>
<p>Generally the acceptance pattern on the stat level is pretty much understandable. The exception was with the University of Pennsylvania where they went 1 for 29.</p>
<p>Is there a reason for this?</p>
<p>3.227(uw) gpa 2120 sat… local state college</p>
<p>6yo post here …</p>
<p>I would say no. DD had much better GPA, IB diploma/AP student with a slightly lower SAT(she only took it in junior year 1370/1600 and Maryland only uses Cr and M) then your kid and no money for scholars program at UMCP. I could be wrong for the her kid.</p>
<p>The Harvard admissions officer running my information session said, and I don’t exaggerate, we don’t care if you get a few Bs here and there–our rule is get a “solid, B+, average”. That’s a 3.3…</p>
<p>I have a tough time believing that a 3.3 is anything but ultra-low for Harvard, but that surely seems to be the case. I’m in your boat a bit, excellent scores (1560 superscore) with a GPA around 3.7 (but this includes the C+s I got in that idiot class… gym). I know it’s not a 3.3, but it certainly does fall into the low range for Ivies. </p>
<p>I wonder where I will end up.</p>
<p>Why didn’t you start a new thread?</p>
<p>Haven’t read the whole thread, but so happy to see lots of posters with sons who do fit this description. Though my son’s GPA unweighted GPA was only slightly better than 3.3, some of his very good friends fit this STAT almost to a T. Not tippy top in class rank in GPA, but excellent standardized scores. A few of them go to the same college as my son now, and have the same scholarship that he does, too. </p>
<p>Looking at some of the above posters, I wish I had given my son the benefit of the doubt on some of these schools and had him apply. One in particular comes to mind is UMCP. I thought it would be a good fit for son, had the programs he liked, the location he wanted, and ECs he would have loved. But I didn’t think he’d qualify for their honors programs, and I didn’t want to send him to a big OOS school without being in an honors program. He had gotten rejected from a lesser ranked school’s honors program in the midwest because of his unweighted GPA. Also, many of the kids from this year’s HS graduating class got into my alma mater, UMiami, with excellent scholarships, with much lower stats than my son had. Son didn’t apply to Miami, but I wouldn’t have thought he would have been able to get even close to the scholarship these kids did. Who knows what factors schools use to decide who gets in and who gets what scholarship.</p>
<p>As for the 4.0 daughter line, I love that. Our “average” boys will make fine husbands. They’re hard workers, but no prima donnas and not self absorbed with their own grandeur. They would love to have a smart girl by their side, and would worship the ground she walked on. What woman wouldn’t want that?</p>
<p>My S is also in this category, is going to the state flagship.</p>
<p>Montegut, are you sure they were actually scholarships and not some form of financial aid? I’ve had people tell me about the great scholarships their kids got, but in reality it was need based aid.</p>
<p>My S was accepted to several schools that I though iffy because of his stats, but he received little merit aid, and since we are nearly full pay, we could not afford to pay close to 50K a year vs. 22K at the state flagship. And the state school has a very good program in his major.</p>
<p>Montegut, is UMCP the University of Maryland - College Park? If so, the admissions standards are continually tightening there. Maybe a 3.3/2100 would have gotten admission to the scholars program in 2005, but not this year.</p>
<p>Friend of the family had similar stats this year, and not only didn’t get accepted into the scholars program, he didn’t get accepted as a regular admit. He was accepted as a Freshman Connection" student, which means admitted for spring semester, with the ability to take only late afternoon/evening classes in the fall, but no on campus housing until spring.</p>
<p>dstark,
I couldnt get the link in the op to work.</p>
<p>Probably because it’s a link from 2005, jym626. Funny how this thread was resurrected and went chugging right along as if 6 years hadn’t passed. I guess we’re all still in the same worried state! I wonder where dstark’s s or d went to college, if he or she is well-educated and thriving. I’m betting there’s a happy ending-- or a happy middle, at least.</p>
<p>LOL Gwen! I didnt notice the original date of the thread!! Yowza!! Several old threads have been resurrected of late. I saw one about a 2400 SAT/36 ACT kid and looked to see who has started the thread, and lo and behold it was ME, 5 or 6 years ago!!! LOL!!!</p>
<p>As soon as it was bumped I said it was 6yo! I was surprised how it zoomed along, lol.</p>