Where can 92/93 GPA St. Albans Student Be Admitted For College?

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This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

So it's not possible for the kid to have gotten half 92's and half 93's? Or half 91's and half 94's? (I think the PP was being facetious, but I can't really tell.)

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

That's completely idiotic, so I assume you are joking. I bet maybe one kid receives a 95 in a class and that is the top grade. It is absolutely possible to have the vast majority of your grades hover between 90-94.

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Folks, the poster is clearly trolling. I’ve reported.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

And you’re hiding the fact that their sophomore and freshman year grades are probably in the 80s. I’m onto you.

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Anonymous wrote:Folks, the poster is clearly trolling. I’ve reported.

How many trolls do you think are on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

And you’re hiding the fact that their sophomore and freshman year grades are probably in the 80s. I’m onto you.

My made-up example kid? You got me.
But thank goodness-- I've given him all 98%'s for senior year!

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This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

Or this comes up with the same average (for let's say a pretty typical smart but non-STEM kid):

US history 92
Calculus 89
Literature 96
Spanish IV 96
Biology 89

That's effectively: 2 A's, an A-, and 2 B+'s. And lots of other permutations possible, with some having all grades hovering around the mean, while other permutations having a wider spread of grades.

I assume not an embarrassment, but I wouldn't run around telling everyone (even on an anonymous forum) that this kid deserves an Ivy admit.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

Or this comes up with the same average (for let's say a pretty typical smart but non-STEM kid):

US history 92
Calculus 89
Literature 96
Spanish IV 96
Biology 89

That's effectively: 2 A's, an A-, and 2 B+'s. And lots of other permutations possible, with some having all grades hovering around the mean, while other permutations having a wider spread of grades.

I assume not an embarrassment, but I wouldn't run around telling everyone (even on an anonymous forum) that this kid deserves an Ivy admit.

Who’s has said they deserve it? On the one side you have people saying it’s possible and it’s happened and on the other side you have people saying it’s impossible. One of those positions is silly.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

Or this comes up with the same average (for let's say a pretty typical smart but non-STEM kid):

US history 92
Calculus 89
Literature 96
Spanish IV 96
Biology 89

That's effectively: 2 A's, an A-, and 2 B+'s. And lots of other permutations possible, with some having all grades hovering around the mean, while other permutations having a wider spread of grades.

I assume not an embarrassment, but I wouldn't run around telling everyone (even on an anonymous forum) that this kid deserves an Ivy admit.

You're obviously correct on the math, but why is this chain still going on? Hasn't it been clear that OP is a troll and there is no child dreaming about Princeton, while working on his redo's?

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all.

This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

Or this comes up with the same average (for let's say a pretty typical smart but non-STEM kid):

US history 92
Calculus 89
Literature 96
Spanish IV 96
Biology 89

That's effectively: 2 A's, an A-, and 2 B+'s. And lots of other permutations possible, with some having all grades hovering around the mean, while other permutations having a wider spread of grades.

I assume not an embarrassment, but I wouldn't run around telling everyone (even on an anonymous forum) that this kid deserves an Ivy admit.

You're obviously correct on the math, but why is this chain still going on? Hasn't it been clear that OP is a troll and there is no child dreaming about Princeton, while working on his redo's?

1. It’s never clear that anyone on this is a troll. Someone just declared it and you ran with it. Unless one of your magical skills includes detecting trolls.

2. It’s fun mocking people who don’t understand math.

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This chain seemed very familiar. Turns out the same troll posted almost the same inquiry back in March. Only difference was test score was 1520 then and average was a 91. All else identical, and 13 pages of posts ensued with, as here, the OP never appearing other than in the kickoff post. I've reupped the chain.

One kinda funny note-- the most frequent recommendation was to forget the Ivies and try to go ED at Chicago (with a lot of advice to go for BC as a more fun alternative to the Ivies than Chicago).

Hahaha.

Looks like OP punked the Saint Albans boosters twice in one year!

By doing it on this forum and not on the private school forum, OP got the boosters to trumpet their privilege, and mock the rest of us whose kids have to do a lot more than get a "92/93!" to make a claim to an Ivy--- and to lament the days when Biff wouldn't be left with Chicago as his best option!

Looking forward to the next setup to display your arrogance!

To be fair, I was mocking your ignorance not your poverty.

LOL. And your kid still isn't getting into an Ivy.

But I hear that Tulane likes STA boys who apply ED and are full pay!

Maybe, maybe not (for all you know my kids are already at Ivy League schools), but Tulane is good school that they would have been perfectly happy to attend. You just don’t know.


But we do know based on the evidence in front of us that you are still an ignorant ass.

Seems like the ignorant ass on here is whoever trashed hard working kids in Annandale who have admirably found and met every challenge they had. And then praised Saint Albans kids, who were offered a world class education, but screw around, get Bs and Cs (or in the case of the troll's non-existent son, an A-minus average), and then still believe they should get into an Ivy (or the kids with Cs should get into UVA). That's asinine. I hope it wasn't you who typed up that one

You still don’t understand the concept of a numerical average, do you? Are you prone to throwing the insults around to mask your obvious ineptitude?

So, a 92 average could mean half the kid's grades are in the A range (let's say 96 or 97), and half are in the B range (let's say 87 or 88). Could even work in a C+ (79) or two if offset with more A's than B's.

Am I impressed with what is a likely mix of A's and B's? Not really. And i'm even less impressed when you're out there boosting STA when it's obvious that OP is a troll with a nonexistent son.

This scenario is unlikely. I have kids at a different Big 3. Two had GPAs in the 3.7+ range, which is probably the same as a 92/93 average at STA. (BTW, one ended up at an Ivy and one at a top SLAC, including last year.) Both these kids had only one B+ on their transcript. The rest of the grades were A's and A-'s. (Many, many of those A-'s were just a half percentage point away from a solid A.) This is much more likely in the case of a 92/93 student than half A's/half B's. Solid A's (96-97s) in these schools are really hard to get, and kids who are smart enough to get A's in half their classes are not getting B's or C's in many (if any) others; they're more likely to be getting A-'s in the other classes.

You’re wrong. I spent hours doing the math on this and the only plausible way to average a 92/93 is for the kid to get half As and half Bs. It’s the only way.

STA uses a numerical grading scale. This is not converting letter grades to a number. You don't have to spend hours determining that maybe they had 1/2 90 and 1/2 94, or 1/2 91 and 1/2 93, etc.

It’s not possible. My solution is the only solution. It’s impossible to conclude that any student with a 93 average didn’t get mid to high 90s in half of their classes and mid to low 80s in the other half. Don’t you know how averages work?

Different poster. I assume you are joking.
Please calculate the junior year GPA of this STA student:

US history 92
Calculus 92
Literature 93
Spanish IV 93
Biology 92

GPA: ?

(hint--the answer is 92.4%)

Or this comes up with the same average (for let's say a pretty typical smart but non-STEM kid):

US history 92
Calculus 89
Literature 96
Spanish IV 96
Biology 89

That's effectively: 2 A's, an A-, and 2 B+'s. And lots of other permutations possible, with some having all grades hovering around the mean, while other permutations having a wider spread of grades.

I assume not an embarrassment, but I wouldn't run around telling everyone (even on an anonymous forum) that this kid deserves an Ivy admit.

Who’s has said they deserve it? On the one side you have people saying it’s possible and it’s happened and on the other side you have people saying it’s impossible. One of those positions is silly.

Except some of those grades are not possible. My kid had the highest grade in his English class last year and it was a 95% (his teacher shared this with him in June). He's currently sitting on a 95% and again it's the highest grade in the class and he's the only one with this grade. A 96% in Spanish might be possible--I don't know the Spanish department. My son is a currently in a history class and the highest grade that any student has (and we're just about at the quarter) is an 89%. It will probably inch up over the course of the year (or not). It's hard to say.
It's very, very hard to get grades above a 95% in the humanities classes because the teachers just don't give them and it's at their discretion to give them (unlike math).