What kind of schools is your humanities kid….

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not an either/or question. They can “reach big” as long as they identify targets and safeties that they also like.

My humanities kid has a 4.0 uw with 10 APs, top 7% of class, TO. Has gotten into a top 30 LAC (target) with top merit and a few 50%+ admit rate state schools with top merit or honors. Rejected from two top 25 universities, still waiting on a few top 20 SLACs (all of them varying degrees of reaches).

I am new to this with a junior as well. Wouldn’t 4.0 uw mean top 1% of class and valedictorian? I mean, there is no better gpa than perfect.

No, weighted GPA tied to rigor of classes considered. 7% sounds about right for 10 APs. My kid has a 4.95 weighted GPA and is not in the top 1% of his class. 3-5% probably.

How is this possible? This would mean nearly every class was AP all through high school and straight As? Our high school offers a grand total of ONE AP class for 9th graders. And not all that much more for 10th graders.

It’s clearly an MCPS kid, where honors is weighted +1.0.