TJ average GPA

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Out of 550 kids in the class, there are at least 350without a single C , and of them about 150 with a single B. If student has half a dozen Cs, they are most likely in bottom fourth of the class. With Calc AB as the minimum to graduate, it is unlikely colleges would even look at SAT math score.

No numbers for all A's

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Out of 550 kids in the class, there are at least 350without a single C , and of them about 150 with a single B. If student has half a dozen Cs, they are most likely in bottom fourth of the class. With Calc AB as the minimum to graduate, it is unlikely colleges would even look at SAT math score.

No numbers for all A's

All A's are there but less than 25%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Out of 550 kids in the class, there are at least 350without a single C , and of them about 150 with a single B. If student has half a dozen Cs, they are most likely in bottom fourth of the class. With Calc AB as the minimum to graduate, it is unlikely colleges would even look at SAT math score.

No numbers for all A's

All A's are there but less than 25%

That will be ~125. Hmm... not bad if it is True

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Out of 550 kids in the class, there are at least 350without a single C , and of them about 150 with a single B. If student has half a dozen Cs, they are most likely in bottom fourth of the class. With Calc AB as the minimum to graduate, it is unlikely colleges would even look at SAT math score.

No numbers for all A's

All A's are there but less than 25%

That will be ~125. Hmm... not bad if it is True

Given how the current admissions process in effect randomly selects applicants without evaluation, there are equal chances of selecting the best, worst, and everyone in between. So, it is reasonable to presume there are around 20 to 25% students of A caliber, another 20 to 25% of C & D caliber, and the remaining 50 to 60% of B caliber.

[Anonymous]

Back in my day pretty much all TJ students applied to VT, W&M, and UVA as the base three schools. I don't really pay attention anymore but roughly 25% of the class would end up at Tech and most of them probably had the lower grades for our class. Many students had under 1300 sat and chose tech, from posts here it sounds like tech may have gotten harder...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back in my day pretty much all TJ students applied to VT, W&M, and UVA as the base three schools. I don't really pay attention anymore but roughly 25% of the class would end up at Tech and most of them probably had the lower grades for our class. Many students had under 1300 sat and chose tech, from posts here it sounds like tech may have gotten harder...

Those may be the glory days of TJ class getting into Harvard, MIT, Stanford. Now the bottom struggles to get into Nova community college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If a TJ junior student GPA has about 3.45 unweighted/3.98 weighted at the end of this academic year, are they above or below the middle of the class? what in-state colleges and majors can one target with this GPA? Is there anyway to find out what the midpoint GPA is for a class? recent TJ school profile says it ranged from 3.255 to 4.663; it appears to be unweighted?

Sounds like the middle. What are their SAT scores. If they are below 1540, I'd say you should look to W&M, JMU, VCU, GMU as targets.

Yeah right. 😂

[Anonymous]

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Student academics including GPA is a major part of the admissions decision, according to common data set. If it comes to deciding between two high GPA students, that's were extra curricular come in. A low GPA applicant especially with a bunch of Cs may not even make it to the initial cut.

For TJ students the bar is even higher for college admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry. This is every TJ parent's nightmare. Could he take some DE classes and get As in them? Why didn't you switch back to your home school after the first year of poor grades?

They've made the first year deceptively easy. It doesn't take much effort to get As or Bs, except for math, biology, and world language, in the first year. It's not until sophomore year that the real struggle begins, but by then, the student is firmly trapped in the TJ social image perception and unlikely to return to the base school. No easy DE courses available for TJ students.

They know if they can keep the bottom student through the sophomore year, they wont quit.