B STUDENTS ARE FINE!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Last year, some of my son's peers were rejected from UMD with a 4.4 weighted GPA. My son had a 4.6 weighted GPA, a dozen AP courses with scores of 5, 35 ACT and got into Honors college.

So.

Word to the wise. A "B" these days isn't that great.

You can bet that B students were admitted over “your son’s peers” because they were desirable applicants for other reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS had a 3.1 GPA from FPCS but got recruited to play Lacrosse at a P5 school. My other DS, 4.4 GPA with 1600 on the SAT, attended Yale, and that was eight years ago. The 3.1 GPA DS is currently making around 750K/year while the other Yale's DS is making 105K/year. IMHO, it is not about the school, it is how you make it while you are there. It is the EQ that matters.

What’s he doing that’s worth 750k a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS had a 3.1 GPA from FPCS but got recruited to play Lacrosse at a P5 school. My other DS, 4.4 GPA with 1600 on the SAT, attended Yale, and that was eight years ago. The 3.1 GPA DS is currently making around 750K/year while the other Yale's DS is making 105K/year. IMHO, it is not about the school, it is how you make it while you are there. It is the EQ that matters.

What’s he doing that’s worth 750k a year?

Hanging out in the Old Boys Club.

[Anonymous]

Hunter Biden makes bank and was terrible in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

Unhelpful…unless you applied to competitive colleges in the last 3 years.

[Anonymous]

With the supposedly rampant grade inflation, a B is a C.

Average students unite!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

College prestige DOES NOT MATTER.

It depends on your career goals, and if the hiring system is purely objective or if it's subjective.

Why are reactivating a thread several months old to say . . .this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hunter Biden makes bank and was terrible in school

So is your dad a US senator or president? can you be the next Hunter Biden while being terrible in school?

[Anonymous]

Yep. Honestly I struggled in high school (c/b student and maybe 1100 on SATs) in part bc I didn't take it seriously and I might have had an undiagnosed learning disability. After high school, I ended up going to community college for 1 year. I got straight As and went on to transfer to William and Mary where I graduated summa cum laude. So- 1) don't let your high school experience define your future; 2) don't let the college that you go to define your worth; and 3) everyone blossoms at their own time ( i.e some babies learn to walk at 1 year and others at 2 years- but now, at 18, you can't tell which kids walked a year earlier).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep. Honestly I struggled in high school (c/b student and maybe 1100 on SATs) in part bc I didn't take it seriously and I might have had an undiagnosed learning disability. After high school, I ended up going to community college for 1 year. I got straight As and went on to transfer to William and Mary where I graduated summa cum laude. So- 1) don't let your high school experience define your future; 2) don't let the college that you go to define your worth; and 3) everyone blossoms at their own time ( i.e some babies learn to walk at 1 year and others at 2 years- but now, at 18, you can't tell which kids walked a year earlier).

Love this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep. Honestly I struggled in high school (c/b student and maybe 1100 on SATs) in part bc I didn't take it seriously and I might have had an undiagnosed learning disability. After high school, I ended up going to community college for 1 year. I got straight As and went on to transfer to William and Mary where I graduated summa cum laude. So- 1) don't let your high school experience define your future; 2) don't let the college that you go to define your worth; and 3) everyone blossoms at their own time ( i.e some babies learn to walk at 1 year and others at 2 years- but now, at 18, you can't tell which kids walked a year earlier).

+1 So very true!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

I agree. Signed A+ student

[Anonymous]

Just like poor students need top colleges more than wealthy students, B students need it more than A+ students. Wealthy and A+ students will do fine anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

I agree. Signed A+ student

You apparently haven't kept up and don't know how ferociously competitive it has become to get into a good school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

Unhelpful…unless you applied to competitive colleges in the last 3 years.

Are you talking about T25 colleges? They were always difficult for a B students. If not, can you name some colleges (not in the T25) that you think are competitive right now?