High GPA, no AP's
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Anonymous
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OP, ask this of your kid's HS counselor and I also might oay for a session with a private consultant who helps with college search and applications. Most do want you to sign up for expensive ongoing help but some will do single sessions or sample sessions. The school and private counsellors can suggest colleges you might not have thought of.
Also check out books like "Colleges That Change Lives" (I think that's the title) and other guides to colleges that list more than the well-known ones. And SAT or ACT scores will be a possibly bigger factor for a kid in your kid's situation so consider prep classes that help identify strengths and weaknesses and which of those two tests is a better fit for your child. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Well, but it really isn't. |
Anonymous
Unhelpful and wrong. The problem isn't the 3.8, especially since it is obviously unweighted. The problem is having no AP classes. W&L and Richmond are out of the question. Check your schools Naviance scattergrams for the schools your DC is interested in. Good luck! |
Anonymous
| Hypothetical questions are annoying |
Anonymous
| naviance won't help because those are kids who took AP classes. |
Anonymous
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Why are you asking a hypothetical?
Also, why not just ask whether it is necessary to take APs? Everyone is saying, yes it is. |
Anonymous
| If no APs, what are the level of classes taken? Is your kid on the lowest math track for example? |
Anonymous
You would still get the .5 for honors. So no. Not that high. |
Anonymous
Wouldn't a 3.8/4.0 amount to maybe making 2 B's throughout all of high school? |
Anonymous
0.2 is 1/5 of 1 so try 20% so Bs in 20% of total courses. Waaaaay more than 2 Bs in 4 years. |
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Yes.but 2 Bs taking a courseload full of home ec and consumer math classes is very different from 2 Bs taking the advanced math track, several APs, etc or even a lot of honors classes plus difficult electives. |
Anonymous
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It depends.
Has your DC taken mostly honors classes instead of AP classes? If so, is the 3.8 GPA weighted or unweighted? What are his or her SAT/ACT scores like? Has he or she done/ does he or she do anything outside of class that would make him or her stand out ( first team all-state in a sport, first chair in an unusual instrument in a select orchestra, started his or her own sucessful charity or business, etc)? |
Anonymous
NO |
Anonymous
I'm just wondering if a kid chose to ditch out on the craziness of AP classes and took the tier below - be that honors or general classes, and did extremely well, what kind of outcome could be expected? Why not ask hypothetically? It's probably highly unusual that kids who skip out on AP's would make straight A's and have high SAT scores, but it would be interesting to see what the outcome for such a kid would be. |