For parents of B average kids

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Anonymous wrote:any chance avg B students get scholarship?

My DD with an UNweighted GPA of 3.7 (weighted 4.2) got many generous scholarships from second tier LAC’s (I.e. schools ranked 30-90, offering basically half price attendance).

Unweighted 3.7 = an A- student. Totally different.

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mine's UW 2.7/W 4.2. so yeah, not relevant. but thx for answering.

There are B students who don’t take a lot of honors/AP classes and then there are B students who take a lot of AP classes. My kid is 3.3 unweighted, 3.5 weighted. Much different than the PP and waaaay lower than 3.7 uw. Schools look at the classes taken in addition to just the GPA.

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Anonymous wrote:You honestly cannot go by what you see here on DCUM.

This place will have you believing that your B student will only be accepted at a community college or suggest a technical trade school instead. They'll tell you that your kid has pretty much no chance of attending any VA school as well.

My solid B kid is at William & Mary in his second year, and is thriving. He was also accepted at Chapman University, Michigan State, Elon, and Auburn.

The only school he applied to and didn't get accepted by was Florida State. He was a bit bummed at first, but he knew that was his reach school. He's actually glad he didn't get accepted now because he's very dismayed with how FL has handled the pandemic. He has two good friends in FL universities and both have had covid since returning to campus this year.

This is wonderful to hear. My DC is applying to all of the above where your DC got accepted, except Chapman (will now have to look that up). College Counselor said W&M falls between Target and Reach. Ofcourse that is her favorite school. She is just a B student but making big improvements. Lots of extracurriculars, etc. I don't know if I should recommend ED for W&M or just wait. Naviance is showing about 50/50 with her stats. We are out of state (DC).

I have to ask. Is your B student a POC? because I cannot imagine how a white kid with a B average can possibly get into any of the "public Ivies" unless he's a minority or an athletic genius.

I'm the PP who's DD is currently applying and YES AA and not into sports. Michigan State and Elon take many B students regardless of race!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You honestly cannot go by what you see here on DCUM.

This place will have you believing that your B student will only be accepted at a community college or suggest a technical trade school instead. They'll tell you that your kid has pretty much no chance of attending any VA school as well.

My solid B kid is at William & Mary in his second year, and is thriving. He was also accepted at Chapman University, Michigan State, Elon, and Auburn.

The only school he applied to and didn't get accepted by was Florida State. He was a bit bummed at first, but he knew that was his reach school. He's actually glad he didn't get accepted now because he's very dismayed with how FL has handled the pandemic. He has two good friends in FL universities and both have had covid since returning to campus this year.

This is wonderful to hear. My DC is applying to all of the above where your DC got accepted, except Chapman (will now have to look that up). College Counselor said W&M falls between Target and Reach. Ofcourse that is her favorite school. She is just a B student but making big improvements. Lots of extracurriculars, etc. I don't know if I should recommend ED for W&M or just wait. Naviance is showing about 50/50 with her stats. We are out of state (DC).

I have to ask. Is your B student a POC? because I cannot imagine how a white kid with a B average can possibly get into any of the "public Ivies" unless he's a minority or an athletic genius.

I'm the PP who's DD is currently applying and YES AA and not into sports. Michigan State and Elon take many B students regardless of race!!

Elon has gotten more selective recently. Arizona state might be the ticket.

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ASU, PSU, Alabama, Auburn, High Point and many others in the South.

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I had two real B students from public school and they got into Temple, Catholic, U of AZ, Indiana, Univ of Cincinnati. (The biggest surprise was probably Catholic but I think a teacher-alumni called on my kid's behalf.)

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The SUNY schools are also good values.

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FOr your B average kids: did they take any honors or AP courses? Have a B student. Has one honors course per year so far. But he has severe ADHD. He does sports, several great extracurricular activities.

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Anonymous wrote:FOr your B average kids: did they take any honors or AP courses? Have a B student. Has one honors course per year so far. But he has severe ADHD. He does sports, several great extracurricular activities.

My kid has severe ADHD. Weighted 3.21. He does orchestra.

9th gr -- 4 honors courses
10th gr -- 3 honors courses
11th gr -- 2 honors courses, 1 DE, 1 Level 4 language course
12th gr -- 2 honors courses

He is looking at colleges in VA and nearby (NC or MD)

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Anonymous wrote:FOr your B average kids: did they take any honors or AP courses? Have a B student. Has one honors course per year so far. But he has severe ADHD. He does sports, several great extracurricular activities.

This is MY DD!! She has taken one AP course per year and at a private school. We are curious how this will play out. So nervous. Did you DS take the SAT or ACT? My DD took one and did a little below average (the ADHD is horrible when it comes to standardized testing). We won't be submitting them to any school.

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Can someone please explain where the UW GPA is listed? We're in FCPS and only the weighted GPA is available. TIA.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain where the UW GPA is listed? We're in FCPS and only the weighted GPA is available. TIA.

The unweighted GPA is not listed anywhere in FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:FOr your B average kids: did they take any honors or AP courses? Have a B student. Has one honors course per year so far. But he has severe ADHD. He does sports, several great extracurricular activities.

This is MY DD!! She has taken one AP course per year and at a private school. We are curious how this will play out. So nervous. Did you DS take the SAT or ACT? My DD took one and did a little below average (the ADHD is horrible when it comes to standardized testing). We won't be submitting them to any school.

We are focusing on test optional schools only. He is horrible at standardized tests.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain where the UW GPA is listed? We're in FCPS and only the weighted GPA is available. TIA.

You can calculate yourself by using the regular grade scale A= 4, B=3, etc. for all courses.

Many schools only consider UW while others use W. Lot of top tier schools also recalculate GPAs based on their in-house formula. For e.g. dropping any non academic courses like PE etc.

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Anonymous wrote:FOr your B average kids: did they take any honors or AP courses? Have a B student. Has one honors course per year so far. But he has severe ADHD. He does sports, several great extracurricular activities.

This is MY DD!! She has taken one AP course per year and at a private school. We are curious how this will play out. So nervous. Did you DS take the SAT or ACT? My DD took one and did a little below average (the ADHD is horrible when it comes to standardized testing). We won't be submitting them to any school.

We are focusing on test optional schools only. He is horrible at standardized tests.

Optional or not, please do not send your kid to a school where his standardized test scores are substantially lower than the average. You will not do him any favors.

And, depending on how low those scores are, carefully consider whether he'd actually benefit from a four year degree program, as opposed to something else.

Somewhat notoriously, the expansion of educational benefits in the post-9/11 GI bill caused a substantial reduction in earnings by encouraging people with low test scores to go to college. https://www.nber.org/papers/w29024

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You honestly cannot go by what you see here on DCUM.

This place will have you believing that your B student will only be accepted at a community college or suggest a technical trade school instead. They'll tell you that your kid has pretty much no chance of attending any VA school as well.

My solid B kid is at William & Mary in his second year, and is thriving. He was also accepted at Chapman University, Michigan State, Elon, and Auburn.

The only school he applied to and didn't get accepted by was Florida State. He was a bit bummed at first, but he knew that was his reach school. He's actually glad he didn't get accepted now because he's very dismayed with how FL has handled the pandemic. He has two good friends in FL universities and both have had covid since returning to campus this year.

I've met happy and successful people that went to at all 5 of those schools your kid got into