College kickstart

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^^^Can you reveal school or at least list the percentage accepted in ED/RA?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Some schools do. UMD does.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

You keep saying the same thing over and over. Try to calm down.

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Anonymous wrote:We used it as a tool to get a balanced list.
For some schools Kickstart was more conservative than Naviance. For example - 99% of applicants from our high school get accepted to Temple. My DC is right smack in the middle of Temple applicants from our high school and Kickstart had it as a Target - but we thought it was a likely.

On the other hand, BU is a school that our high school does not have a strong track record for getting students accepted. My DC Naviance point is not near anyone that has gotten accepted - but Kickstart has it as a Reach as opposed to an Unlikely.

For our family - it was another tool to look at in the process.
This weekend we will hear from 2 schools. Kickstart profile - one reach and one likely
Naviance profile (from the overview page)- Match and Safety
I will report back .....

Please do!!

2 acceptances!

So naviance more accurate?
Congrats!

Naviance had it as a match / Kickstart as a reach.
Got accepted - but reaches are things that you might get accepted to.
The reach was ED - so we are out will not not have any more data.

Was ED BU (Boston University)? But they don’t have result yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Schools certainly look at the rigor of a student’s class work, most colleges list it as one of the top factors they look at. Ratings that don’t take this into account aren’t going to be the most accurate.

This. Course selection can matter at selective schools more than all As