Rigor - Is it that important?
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Anonymous
This isn’t true. AP scores of 4 are fine. |
Anonymous
| GPA is king but doesn't rigor play into that? At our high school, there's only a weighted GPA so rigor has an impact for sure. |
Anonymous
Agree - 4s and 5s are looked at very highly, but in general AP exam scores don't mean what they used to. |
Anonymous
This! For stem majors, a top GPA may not be enough, it's better to strategically apply to an undersubscribed major. Switch major once they are in. |
Anonymous
| Get through Calc BC if at all possible. Makes college calc so much easier. |
Anonymous
T15-25 not needed to have max in all, just most, especially if ED. For Top10 especially in RD , all is needed. For anyone with less than top3% GPA for most publics or less than top 10% GPa from most privates, top rigor across the board can boost the slightly borderline GPA. UChicago is the T10 exception: ED there does not need all top rigor, even if the GPA is borderline. If your student is not interested in top rigor in all areas why would they want T20? |
Anonymous
| Is the question about rigor for college admissions or rigor for success in college classes? Or rigor for learning? Could be lots of answers to these various questions. |
Anonymous
You are mixing two issues together. The first is whether rigor is considered in T20 admissions. The second is the benefit of taking rigor courses in high school. I think one can game the system to protect GPA by taking less rigor to get into T20 schools. The price is that they wont be as prepared as those who took higher rigor. Wouldn't recommend this to stem kids. |
Anonymous
| There is much fiction flying around on this thread. People are anxious. |
Anonymous
| Take all the top rigor courses and get the As and be at the top of the class, get the 5s. Unhooked stem major admissions to mulitple T10/ivy and also prepared for the rigor of the selected top school. No need to repeat calc, start i. Multivariable like he other top students |
Anonymous
Not true. Majors are selected after sophomore year. They just care about GPA from my TJ child experience. Even they don’t care about SAT 1580 |
Anonymous
| I suspect full pay is king, this year, but waiting to hear from RD. Highest rigor, highest SAT, top 3 school, excellent but not perfect GPA with one admit, one ED denial, one EA denial, and one waitlist for Engineering. |
Anonymous
Northwestern moreso than UChicago - many from our private are admitted ED (sometimes RD) with very minimal rigor. The kids who go to UChicago typically have higher rigor and better test scores. |
Anonymous
From this school, rigor is absolutely the most important. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1312181.page Look at page 4, two low rigor cases: 96.84, NYIT, Stony Brook 96.82, RPI, Rutgers Both have very high GPA, but it doesn't compensate for low rigor. |
Anonymous
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Getting A's is more important after a threshold.
Eg in Math getting to Calc B/C with a 'A' is more important than further advancing to post AP courses.. |