What does "straight As" mean to you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently discovered that when my kids say someone has "straight As," it means that the student does not have any Bs or Cs (or Ds or Fs obviously), but a student with all "A-"s would still consider themselves a "straight A student." I always thought a "straight A" student had a 4.0 UW. Am I in the minority here?

No. Straight As means a 4.00 UW GPA. Our three kids are all straight A students. One at Harvard, one at Yale, and one at MIT. All full scholarships.

Those schools have no merit scholarships so for a full ride you have to have less than 170k income. It is pure need based at those places. You are a troll and do not have kids at those schools or you would be well aware of these facts

+1. Also, you'd have to make more like under 100K or 75K to qualify for full ride vice just free or reduced tuition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid has no Bs of any sort but has some A minuses at a top private high school (Big3) and did not get into an ED ranked around 30 despite an otherwise very strong application. So colleges seem to want all As without the minuses.

When I threw a brown egg at the wall it cracked, so things that are brown must break easily.

Why are you only throwing brown eggs at the wall and not white ones? Are you trying to break as many brown things as you can so they can’t get into college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently discovered that when my kids say someone has "straight As," it means that the student does not have any Bs or Cs (or Ds or Fs obviously), but a student with all "A-"s would still consider themselves a "straight A student." I always thought a "straight A" student had a 4.0 UW. Am I in the minority here?

No. Straight As means a 4.00 UW GPA. Our three kids are all straight A students. One at Harvard, one at Yale, and one at MIT. All full scholarships.

Those schools have no merit scholarships so for a full ride you have to have less than 170k income. It is pure need based at those places. You are a troll and do not have kids at those schools or you would be well aware of these facts

Untrue, of course.

You wouldn’t even know that as all of these schools are totally out of your reach (and those of your friends and family, I’m sure). The common perception and broad advertising that T10 schools don’t offer merit is a bit misleading. Sometimes they are full scholarships based on athletic merit. Sometimes they are referred to clandestinely as fellowships. In either case, there is no relation to need or correlation with family income.

I have degrees from all three of these institutions, to include B.S., S.M., D.B.A., Ph.D., and M.D. degrees. Sorry you were misinformed and unaware of the inside baseball, chump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Straight As include A-.

This. And I will add Straight As (with A-) are better at some schools than others. Our's requires a 93 to get an A. My daughter has A- in her AP classes...they are borderline As around 92%. As far as I am concerned, she is a straight A student.

To the person complaining her kid didn't ED into a college with A-, I doubt very much that was the reason. There are lots of other aspects of the application that would turn a student away. Uninspiring essay, mediocre teacher recommendations, no meaningful ECs, etc. I hope your kid gets into a schools he/she likes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid has no Bs of any sort but has some A minuses at a top private high school (Big3) and did not get into an ED ranked around 30 despite an otherwise very strong application. So colleges seem to want all As without the minuses.

Or they just didn’t want your kid

[Anonymous]

I consider straight As to mean no Bs, so As or A-s. My DC’s schools doesn’t give A+s.

[Anonymous]

Seriously who cares?
You are talking about decimal points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently discovered that when my kids say someone has "straight As," it means that the student does not have any Bs or Cs (or Ds or Fs obviously), but a student with all "A-"s would still consider themselves a "straight A student." I always thought a "straight A" student had a 4.0 UW. Am I in the minority here?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently discovered that when my kids say someone has "straight As," it means that the student does not have any Bs or Cs (or Ds or Fs obviously), but a student with all "A-"s would still consider themselves a "straight A student." I always thought a "straight A" student had a 4.0 UW. Am I in the minority here?

Get a hobby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straight As include A-.

This. And I will add Straight As (with A-) are better at some schools than others. Our's requires a 93 to get an A. My daughter has A- in her AP classes...they are borderline As around 92%. As far as I am concerned, she is a straight A student.

To the person complaining her kid didn't ED into a college with A-, I doubt very much that was the reason. There are lots of other aspects of the application that would turn a student away. Uninspiring essay, mediocre teacher recommendations, no meaningful ECs, etc. I hope your kid gets into a schools he/she likes.

My kid has all those things per college advising who has confirmed that there are no weak points. The only ones getting in ED to top20 schools so far are those with top, straight As. The A minus grades do mean something when there are As to be had above them. This comes from the college advisor.

[Anonymous]

My kids school does not have A-. An A is an A.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS doesn't have + or - . An A is an A, and honestly, that seems more logical than counting A and A+ as an A, but not A-. Where would be the logic of that? If you wanted to isolate the A and A+, instead of calling is straight As (which should include ALL types of As), you should refer to it as a 4+ gpa, because that's what it actually means.

It bugs me that people aren't accurate.

A+ is not an A!
Straight As means all As. No A-, no A+.
Logic!

This makes more sense than op's beliefs.

I would consider straight A-, still straight As. That's how most people have seen it since grading systems with As.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids school does not have A-. An A is an A.

Lmao. 😆

[Anonymous]

4.0 UW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG, who cares.

+100 why does this matter at all. Get a freaking life and quick