B STUDENTS ARE FINE!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4 pages and no one has given any examples of where their B students ended up.

Because there are zillions of options. Everything from big publics (Alabama, Arizona, Utah, Oregon, Delaware, Rutgers etc) to catholic colleges (Loyola MD, Loyola Chicago, Providence, Marquette, Univ San Diego) to small/medium privates (random top of mind: Rollins, Marist, Ithaca, Muhlenberg, Elon, High Point…there are dozens of good ones, I’m not going to list them)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Last year, some of my son's peers were rejected from UMD with a 4.4 weighted GPA. My son had a 4.6 weighted GPA, a dozen AP courses with scores of 5, 35 ACT and got into Honors college.

So.

Word to the wise. A "B" these days isn't that great.

Disagree. A B is still great. It just makes college admissions tougher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS had a 3.1 GPA from FPCS but got recruited to play Lacrosse at a P5 school. My other DS, 4.4 GPA with 1600 on the SAT, attended Yale, and that was eight years ago. The 3.1 GPA DS is currently making around 750K/year while the other Yale's DS is making 105K/year. IMHO, it is not about the school, it is how you make it while you are there. It is the EQ that matters.

Can you talk about what he did in college, grades, grad school and what he does now to earn $750K/yr. Want to use that to motivate my low stats kid

He studied finance in college because it was considered one of the so-called "easier" majors that most P5 athletes chose because of the amount of time they had to train for their sports.  However, he also knew that "networking" is much more important than both the GPA and what you majored in.  He was also very careful with whom he wanted to hang out with.  One of his best buddies was his roommate who wasn't a lacrosse player but loved to hang out with athletes and DS took advantage of it.  The roommate's mother is a big shot at a FinTech company and gave DS an internship where she worked at the time.  During his internship, DS became friends with a SVP of the company and the SVP became his mentor.  When the SVP left the company and joined another FinTech as an EVP, he called DS, who just graduated, to join him at the new firm and mentored for the first five years in three different positions.  The EVP recently left his position to join another firm as a CFO and took DS along with him for the ride.  DS is now a SVP at the new firm, reporting directly to the CFO, and he is making 750K at the age of twenty eight.  The CFO said this to him:  In an important position, your EQ is much more important than IQ.

My other DS, who graduated from Yale, is making 105K per year, is about to join the same company and he will be reporting to his younger brother.

[Anonymous]

B students might be fine but they should think about paths other than college. c students should go to certification programs.

[Anonymous]

B students ARE fine. That's why I have no problem calling them that. It's not a pejorative term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:B students ARE fine. That's why I have no problem calling them that. It's not a pejorative term.

Around this place it is, sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:B students might be fine but they should think about paths other than college. c students should go to certification programs.

A student with a 3.9 shouldn’t go to college? A 3.5? What if they have 5s on all their APs and As in those classes but Ds in art and PE?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS had a 3.1 GPA from FPCS but got recruited to play Lacrosse at a P5 school. My other DS, 4.4 GPA with 1600 on the SAT, attended Yale, and that was eight years ago. The 3.1 GPA DS is currently making around 750K/year while the other Yale's DS is making 105K/year. IMHO, it is not about the school, it is how you make it while you are there. It is the EQ that matters.

Can you talk about what he did in college, grades, grad school and what he does now to earn $750K/yr. Want to use that to motivate my low stats kid

He studied finance in college because it was considered one of the so-called "easier" majors that most P5 athletes chose because of the amount of time they had to train for their sports.  However, he also knew that "networking" is much more important than both the GPA and what you majored in.  He was also very careful with whom he wanted to hang out with.  One of his best buddies was his roommate who wasn't a lacrosse player but loved to hang out with athletes and DS took advantage of it.  The roommate's mother is a big shot at a FinTech company and gave DS an internship where she worked at the time.  During his internship, DS became friends with a SVP of the company and the SVP became his mentor.  When the SVP left the company and joined another FinTech as an EVP, he called DS, who just graduated, to join him at the new firm and mentored for the first five years in three different positions.  The EVP recently left his position to join another firm as a CFO and took DS along with him for the ride.  DS is now a SVP at the new firm, reporting directly to the CFO, and he is making 750K at the age of twenty eight.  The CFO said this to him:  In an important position, your EQ is much more important than IQ.

My other DS, who graduated from Yale, is making 105K per year, is about to join the same company and he will be reporting to his younger brother.

Awesome! Congrats to your son and your family!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4 pages and no one has given any examples of where their B students ended up.

Mine is at Loyola MD. He got $25k in merit $.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:B students might be fine but they should think about paths other than college. c students should go to certification programs.

I have never met someone in real life that thinks B students are not college bound. Are you from another country that tracks kids into college/no college during high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

Bravo and I agree!!!
signed a teacher

Now get together and form an excessive exclamation point club.

[Anonymous]

B students are the real VIPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LISTEN UP! B students are fine! B students will go to college and be successful!! B students will receive scholarships!

Stop calling your kids that!

They are fine!

Signed-A B student who is now a pharmacist!

Bravo and I agree!!!
signed a teacher

Now get together and form an excessive exclamation point club.

DP. Great idea! BTW, where did you take Jerkwando classes? You must have a black belt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:B students might be fine but they should think about paths other than college. c students should go to certification programs.

My daughter was wondering if these certification programs offer merit?

[Anonymous]

Fine?

Not fine for these schools:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1161972.page