Dreaded C+ on transcript

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of Langley HS and McLean HS got into top schools this year. I bet 99% of these kids are not legacies, URM or Recruited Athletes. Also academically these public schools may be stronger than the private schools in DC area.

Nope. Sorry, but not even close. They may be good schools - certainly better than other publics in the area or in the state - but they are still VA state-run public schools, subject to the same bureaucracy and curriculum that is handed to them.

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of Langley HS and McLean HS got into top schools this year. I bet 99% of these kids are not legacies, URM or Recruited Athletes. Also academically these public schools may be stronger than the private schools in DC area.

Nope. Sorry, but not even close. They may be good schools - certainly better than other publics in the area or in the state - but they are still VA state-run public schools, subject to the same bureaucracy and curriculum that is handed to them.

What's wrong with the public school curriculum? What's wrong with AP classes?

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

It's entirely possible that at least some are legacies. Plenty of Asian Americans who attended college in the US in the late 80s and early 90s have college aged children now and they are all applying.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of Langley HS and McLean HS got into top schools this year. I bet 99% of these kids are not legacies, URM or Recruited Athletes. Also academically these public schools may be stronger than the private schools in DC area.

Nope. Sorry, but not even close. They may be good schools - certainly better than other publics in the area or in the state - but they are still VA state-run public schools, subject to the same bureaucracy and curriculum that is handed to them.

What's wrong with the public school curriculum? What's wrong with AP classes?

Nothing is wrong with them or their curriculum. Just private school parents who inexplicably need to make these baseless claims. And I say this as a private school parent.

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

It's entirely possible that at least some are legacies. Plenty of Asian Americans who attended college in the US in the late 80s and early 90s have college aged children now and they are all applying.

Yes, these Asian Americans came to the US to attend graduate schools to get master's and PhDs. Some of them went to Ivy league schools. But their kids are not legacies. Only an applicant is regarded as a legacy because a parent or other relative attended the same school as an Undergraduate student.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in a big 3 school and a fairly good student in at least the top 3rd (if not higher) of the class. During 9th and 10th grade most of her grades were usually an A or A- with a couple of B's thrown in. Science is something she has always struggled with and this semester she got a dreaded C+ in her science class. We're hoping this one "C" letter grade is an anomaly and the rest of her high school years will be As and Bs (fingers crossed). DD is not looking to study science in school and is looking at an English or History major. She will not apply to any Ivy League schools but may be interested in applying ED to schools like Duke or Northwestern or some SLACs. She also likes Berkeley and UCLA. Does one "C" letter grade in 10th grade impact her chances at these colleges. DD has some great extracurriuculars including some competitive summer scholarships so she does have that going for her.

DD is upset about the "C" grade and we're hoping to help put this in perspective for her. And yes, we will ask the counselors but we don't have our first meeting until this fall.

Even without a C, the grades are pretty bad. Paying $$$ and getting that kind of grades. Flush the money into the toilet. Who cares it's a Big 3.

As and Bs are not bad grades. I suspect you are a public school parent that thinks a kid needs 8 AP classes and a 4.0 + GPA to get into any top 20 college. It just isn’t true from a Big 3 private.

Is that because kids at the private schools have some super powers so that they can get into the top 20 without great grades?

No. It's because at the private schools we're discussing (DC Big 3), there is zero grade inflation, and college admissions offices know that. A B at Sidwell equals an A at any area public school, hands down.

I promise you a B at your school doesn’t equal an A at TJ which is a public school.

OK, that I concede. TJ may be the one exception. But other DMV area high schools? Please.

I've had one at TJ and one at a Big 3, and the level of work and difficulty is comparable. There was more curving of grades at TJ and opportunities for extra credit than at the Big 3. Physics and foreign language was graded more harshly at TJ, while history/English was graded more harshly at the Big 3.

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

It's entirely possible that at least some are legacies. Plenty of Asian Americans who attended college in the US in the late 80s and early 90s have college aged children now and they are all applying.

Yes, these Asian Americans came to the US to attend graduate schools to get master's and PhDs. Some of them went to Ivy league schools. But their kids are not legacies. Only an applicant is regarded as a legacy because a parent or other relative attended the same school as an Undergraduate student.

Don't think the kids getting into Ivy leagues from Langley HS are of your ethnicity.

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

It's entirely possible that at least some are legacies. Plenty of Asian Americans who attended college in the US in the late 80s and early 90s have college aged children now and they are all applying.

Yes, these Asian Americans came to the US to attend graduate schools to get master's and PhDs. Some of them went to Ivy league schools. But their kids are not legacies. Only an applicant is regarded as a legacy because a parent or other relative attended the same school as an Undergraduate student.

Hey dipshit. I said that because I'm one of them. I attended undergrad during this timeframe, and I know a ton of Asian American classmates from my undergrad years (it was about 15% Asian American back then). We're all, or almost all, born in the United States and went to college back in the late 80s and early 90s. Now our kids are applying, and they are legacies. Stop bloviating about things you know nothing about.

Don't think the kids getting into Ivy leagues from Langley HS are of your ethnicity.

I have no idea, but I don't see how you can rule it out unless you know each one of them personally. You can't tell just by looking at their names on a list.

If you look at their names, you pretty much figure out where their parents were originally from.

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OMG....seriously people. Do you really think it makes that big a difference for their future? Really? Because I have taught at state schools, and an Ivy school. The school you graduate from DOES NOT MATTER. I have had amazing students at state school who scored in the top 5% with their MCAT scores and who attended Karolinska. I have had some completely obnoxious, entitled BS artists who don't know how to put together a coherent sentence in an Ivy school who flail after graduation living with their parents for 15 years. They can be successful wherever they go if they can perform.

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Who is to say she won't get another C? She's not a strong student, sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is to say she won't get another C? She's not a strong student, sorry.

Kid is a lot better off than an adult trolling a private school forum on a beautiful afternoon.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is to say she won't get another C? She's not a strong student, sorry.

Kid is a lot better off than an adult trolling a private school forum on a beautiful afternoon.

That's the fact.

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

It's entirely possible that at least some are legacies. Plenty of Asian Americans who attended college in the US in the late 80s and early 90s have college aged children now and they are all applying.

Yes, these Asian Americans came to the US to attend graduate schools to get master's and PhDs. Some of them went to Ivy league schools. But their kids are not legacies. Only an applicant is regarded as a legacy because a parent or other relative attended the same school as an Undergraduate student.

Not true about Asian Americans only going to ivy grad schools.My relatives live over in Fairfax and all 3 kids graduated from Langley. The parents all went to undergrad in the US. My cousin went to Cornell and Columbia. Her spouse graduated from undergrad at Stanford. They and their other Asian American friends are not IT workers. Many are lawyers, phDs in psychology, MDs, engineers and consultants as quite a few have MBAs. My parents came over in the 70s for grad school and I came with them before I was speaking any language. I attended an Ivy League undergrad and am in my mid 40s but had kids late. They will be legacy if they should choose to apply to my alma later.

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Anonymous wrote:No legacies from Langley? as if 98% of the McLean parents are college graduates? Right.

Majority of kids got into Ivy league schools from Langley High are Asians. These kids are not legacies at all. They are the second-generation immigrants. Of course, their parents are highly-educated professionals in IT or other areas.

It's entirely possible that at least some are legacies. Plenty of Asian Americans who attended college in the US in the late 80s and early 90s have college aged children now and they are all applying.

Yes, these Asian Americans came to the US to attend graduate schools to get master's and PhDs. Some of them went to Ivy league schools. But their kids are not legacies. Only an applicant is regarded as a legacy because a parent or other relative attended the same school as an Undergraduate student.

Not true about Asian Americans only going to ivy grad schools.My relatives live over in Fairfax and all 3 kids graduated from Langley. The parents all went to undergrad in the US. My cousin went to Cornell and Columbia. Her spouse graduated from undergrad at Stanford. They and their other Asian American friends are not IT workers. Many are lawyers, phDs in psychology, MDs, engineers and consultants as quite a few have MBAs. My parents came over in the 70s for grad school and I came with them before I was speaking any language. I attended an Ivy League undergrad and am in my mid 40s but had kids late. They will be legacy if they should choose to apply to my alma later.

Mater not later. Typing on my phone