How much rigor matters in college admission

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know OP. I have been reading lately that college admissions are looking at taking top 1-3 kids from high school classes. So rigor might matter, but it seems grades matter more.

Maybe in public schools. Not in private schools where sometimes 50%+ of the class is admitted to a T25.

How many students is 50%?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know OP. I have been reading lately that college admissions are looking at taking top 1-3 kids from high school classes. So rigor might matter, but it seems grades matter more.

Maybe in public schools. Not in private schools where sometimes 50%+ of the class is admitted to a T25.

How many students is 50%?

DP. Could be 30 kids, could be 60. Depends on the school.

[Anonymous]

The highest highest math does not matter much if the kid isn't engineering/math/cs. People give that WAY too much weight.

They want to see AP courses in every subject, and unweighted high gpas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The highest highest math does not matter much if the kid isn't engineering/math/cs. People give that WAY too much weight.

They want to see AP courses in every subject, and unweighted high gpas.

I doubt it OP would take the highest math but not major in stem. Many private schools offer no AP, but college level courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know OP. I have been reading lately that college admissions are looking at taking top 1-3 kids from high school classes. So rigor might matter, but it seems grades matter more.

Maybe in public schools. Not in private schools where sometimes 50%+ of the class is admitted to a T25.

How many students is 50%?

DP. Could be 30 kids, could be 60. Depends on the school.

So both could be true.

[Anonymous]

Rigor matters a lot but so does GPA - so if you are aiming for the top and took rigor but got lower GPA, our experience was that your kid will likely be leap-frogged by kids with hooks and no rigor (and potentially higher GPA...but even that might be lower).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The highest highest math does not matter much if the kid isn't engineering/math/cs. People give that WAY too much weight.

They want to see AP courses in every subject, and unweighted high gpas.

What if your DS has all the AP courses but is an A/B student? Is that still considered high?

Do they take into consideration that they are also playing two sports? One being very time consuming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The highest highest math does not matter much if the kid isn't engineering/math/cs. People give that WAY too much weight.

They want to see AP courses in every subject, and unweighted high gpas.

What if your DS has all the AP courses but is an A/B student? Is that still considered high?

Do they take into consideration that they are also playing two sports? One being very time consuming?

Why would they consider your grades in context with your sport if you aren’t a recruited athlete?

Plenty of non-recruited athletes have 4.0 GPAs because they realize their grades are more important than their sport for college (and plenty of recruited athletes have 4.0s too…but that’s just gravy for the coach/college).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know OP. I have been reading lately that college admissions are looking at taking top 1-3 kids from high school classes. So rigor might matter, but it seems grades matter more.

Maybe in public schools. Not in private schools where sometimes 50%+ of the class is admitted to a T25.

How many students is 50%?

True at our non-DMV private. 40+ kids at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The highest highest math does not matter much if the kid isn't engineering/math/cs. People give that WAY too much weight.

They want to see AP courses in every subject, and unweighted high gpas.

What if your DS has all the AP courses but is an A/B student? Is that still considered high?

Do they take into consideration that they are also playing two sports? One being very time consuming?

Why would they consider your grades in context with your sport if you aren’t a recruited athlete?

Plenty of non-recruited athletes have 4.0 GPAs because they realize their grades are more important than their sport for college (and plenty of recruited athletes have 4.0s too…but that’s just gravy for the coach/college).

This….
If not recruited, the sports count as 1 EC…..

[Anonymous]

If you go visit schools and hear the admissions directors, rigor matters a LOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rigor matters a lot but so does GPA - so if you are aiming for the top and took rigor but got lower GPA, our experience was that your kid will likely be leap-frogged by kids with hooks and no rigor (and potentially higher GPA...but even that might be lower).

But that's hooked kids, without a hook you need rigor and GPA, one, but not the other is insufficient.

[Anonymous]

I forget that these private schools are so small. Magen the “top 50 %” is only 40 kids. My kid is at a public magnet where top 50% is more like 250. But still sends around 40 or more to ivies/MIT/Stanford.