Are we headed for trade school?

[Anonymous]

There are tons of SLACs with undersized endowments who would love to have your full pay child

[Anonymous]

Comments like this are idiotic and not helpful If you read these boards, you would think all kids gets perfect SAT/ACT scores and takes 15 APs and is an inventor, starts non-profits, plays banjo with their toes, creates computer games and so on.

I get it. College admissions have become incredible ridiculous. I wish I could attend college today. I grew up in the foster care system (yes, really), got free lunches, graduated 5th in my rural high school class and went to a big state school. One school, one choice, one application, lousy SATS. Two degrees later, I moved to the DMV and have a rewarding job.

If I had been applying today, I'd talk up foster care, making it, staying the course... Nobody cared back then There weren't all these ridiculous hooks and bs. Never talked about, just applied. No indigent background hooks.

I get the concern. What a bunch of cr*p.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are my kids stats and where he was accepted.

GPA (weighted)- 3.4
SAT- 1150

Accepted at Drexel, St, Joe's, Loyola MD, SMCM, UMBC, Towson, Manhattan College, JMU, La Salle. He was waitlisted at Fordham. Your kid will be fine. Relax.

Congrats to your child!!

[Anonymous]

SAT is low for the GPA, gives impression of grade inflation. Should go test optional

[Anonymous]

My hairdresser and electrician make more money than I do and honestly sometimes I don’t know that my job is more meaningful or complex than theirs.
— elite SLAC humanities grad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My hairdresser and electrician make more money than I do and honestly sometimes I don’t know that my job is more meaningful or complex than theirs.
— elite SLAC humanities grad

humanities, no wonder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also if she is URM, athlete,musician, legacy, underprivileged or from an underrepresented school or town, she can do better than expected.

Being a musician is some sort of hook?

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't this UMD material? Which is perfectly respectable and not outrageously expensive. My oldest child is a junior too, so I don't have more experience than you, but come on. Those are good numbers.

No, the SAT is too low but there are many great schools to which she can apply test optional. Many. That’s a great GPA

Yes, but the problem is, everyone (and by that, I mean colleges, plus everyone on DCUM) knows that a GPA like that from a public school is meaningless after the last 2 years. And as proof, the SAT score is too low.

Yes, but there is nothing a kid can do about the fact that their school inflates grades. So what she needs to do is show academic curiosity by doing something outside of school, if she is actually worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this UMD material? Which is perfectly respectable and not outrageously expensive. My oldest child is a junior too, so I don't have more experience than you, but come on. Those are good numbers.

No, the SAT is too low but there are many great schools to which she can apply test optional. Many. That’s a great GPA

Yes, but the problem is, everyone (and by that, I mean colleges, plus everyone on DCUM) knows that a GPA like that from a public school is meaningless after the last 2 years. And as proof, the SAT score is too low.

Yes, but there is nothing a kid can do about the fact that their school inflates grades. So what she needs to do is show academic curiosity by doing something outside of school, if she is actually worried.

And retake the SAT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAT is low for the GPA, gives impression of grade inflation. Should go test optional

Really?!? Or maybe is just means the kid isn’t great at standardized tests.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SAT is low for the GPA, gives impression of grade inflation. Should go test optional

Really?!? Or maybe is just means the kid isn’t great at standardized tests.

Do some preparation. They will facing years of tests and exams in college so getting some test taking skills is very useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So this board has me so freaked out for my DD. She is junior this year at a MCPS “W” school. Honest to goodness, after reading stats of kids who are t getting into schools with near perfect test scores and grades and ECs, I am wondering what her chances will be to gain acceptance to schools

Her Stats are 1300 and 4.61 W and 3.97 UW.

Tell me where your child was accepted with similar stats! Give me hope!

Tulane among others from a well regarded (but not T3) private. Lower SAT but equivalent grades. Yours will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is she fit and cute?

Nothing wrong with becoming an auto mechanic or cnc operator or gardener, having a side business as a fitness/yoga instructor.

She can have a good trade job and also use her looks to do influencer stuff on the side.

Would you take this approach with a man, because it comes across as extremely sexist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SAT is low for the GPA, gives impression of grade inflation. Should go test optional

Really?!? Or maybe is just means the kid isn’t great at standardized tests.

Its a red flag for sure, with a GPA that high and SAT that low

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with trade school?

Nothing, but my kids are terrible at anything involving manual dexterity, so they would fail out of trade school. They need to go to college to get a job.