What does "straight As" mean to you?

[Anonymous]

Inflated marks.

Very, very few kids are actual straight A students.

I am currently on a university adissions committe and in most cases, I don't give it any weight or meaning as they likely bought it with privilege or an inflated grade education.

[Anonymous]

An A is an A.
I’d call an A- an A.
So straight As.

[Anonymous]

Only As on transcript. Not a single thing below an 'A'.

My firstborn pulled this off at a tough private...and Junior doing it so far (fingers crossed).

HS counselor said it was not common at our HS. Oldest did very well last year in admissions. At an Ivy (RD unhooked) this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only As on transcript. Not a single thing below an 'A'.

My firstborn pulled this off at a tough private...and Junior doing it so far (fingers crossed).

HS counselor said it was not common at our HS. Oldest did very well last year in admissions. At an Ivy (RD unhooked) this year.

Scoring 5s on every single one of his AP exams backed up rigor.

[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?

They said they have "straight A's" not a "4.0" - there is a difference.

[Anonymous]

Why should I try to be a straight A student?
If you are, then you think too much.

[Anonymous]

straight As is all As. the letter is the defining element.

[Anonymous]

A-, A or A+ - as in all the grades are an A letter grade. As in straight As.

[Anonymous]

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?

4.0 UW average.

Our MD district gives 4.0 for an A or A-, 3.0 for a B+, B, or B-, etc. So a mix of A and A- = 4.0 on the transcript.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Inflated marks.

Very, very few kids are actual straight A students.

I am currently on a university adissions committe and in most cases, I don't give it any weight or meaning as they likely bought it with privilege or an inflated grade education.

If they have all As on the transcript, doesn't that make them a straight A student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That's mighty racist of you to say.

[Anonymous]

When I was in school there no minuses. There were only solid letters.

[Anonymous]

It means, if you are the kind of person who cares about this sort of thing, we probably cannot be friends.