Tell it to me straight ...GPA

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Anonymous wrote:Those schools were statistically pretty much off the table even if your child never got an A and Aldo got perfect SATs. If you mean competitive schools more broadly then a b in 9th grade is fine.

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This is the most BS statement I've heard people talking these days.
Students' qualifications are wildly different even among those straight A students. An acceptance rate is just a concept of average but isn't the chance for everybody. An International Math Olympiad gold medalist would have much better chance for HYPSM than an otherwise average A person.

Agree. Colleges like Harvard want a ‘spike’ in the students extracurriculars. From what I had understood, if a student won or represents US in international Biology olympiad( 1 of the 4 participating team) , then he or she can have few ‘B’ in humanities courses.

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Let’s talk about white athletes now shall we?

+1 and legacies, donors, etc. Their advantage is much greater than URMs but they'd rather the unhooked focus on hating on the URMs rather than questioning legacy privilege.