New College Focus on AP Tests and GDS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS is having an amazing year so far for college admissions. They know what they are doing. Have a little faith!

A good third of the class hired outside college counselors, FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS is having an amazing year so far for college admissions. They know what they are doing. Have a little faith!

A good third of the class hired outside college counselors, FWIW.

A third? My random sampling says more like two thirds!

[Anonymous]

Can this be moved to private school forum? It’s not about college. It is about GDS. most of us don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GDS is having an amazing year so far for college admissions. They know what they are doing. Have a little faith!

A good third of the class hired outside college counselors, FWIW.

A third? My random sampling says more like two thirds!

Any recs on who we should get in touch with? Would love some names of good outside counselors!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AP classes matter if you are applying to UC schools. Impossible to get in OOS without any AP classes. Maybe GDS kids don’t want to go to UCLA, Cal, UCSD, etc.?!?

My private in a different metro (outside California) continues to have have matriculations to UC schools - and the matriculation rate to UC schools has not recently changed. It does not have any classes labeled AP. It also does not (and never did) weight GPAs.

It doesn't matter if the private weights the GPAs or not, the UC admissions offices put grades through their own matrix, for both OOS and in state applicants. It also doesn't matter that they have no "official" AP classes, there will be an obvious line of rigor versus remedial that the AO can follow. You act like it's some kind of golden school with special privileges for the UC and it is not.

You missed the point. To be much more clear: good schools (not great, not special, not better, not outstanding, just merely good) which offer zero AP classes are still able to place good students into good UC campuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP classes matter if you are applying to UC schools. Impossible to get in OOS without any AP classes. Maybe GDS kids don’t want to go to UCLA, Cal, UCSD, etc.?!?

My private in a different metro (outside California) continues to have have matriculations to UC schools - and the matriculation rate to UC schools has not recently changed. It does not have any classes labeled AP. It also does not (and never did) weight GPAs.

It doesn't matter if the private weights the GPAs or not, the UC admissions offices put grades through their own matrix, for both OOS and in state applicants. It also doesn't matter that they have no "official" AP classes, there will be an obvious line of rigor versus remedial that the AO can follow. You act like it's some kind of golden school with special privileges for the UC and it is not.

You missed the point. To be much more clear: good schools (not great, not special, not better, not outstanding, just merely good) which offer zero AP classes are still able to place good students into good UC campuses.

UC publishes all of their acceptance data by source high school. Acceptances from GDS to UCLA and UCB are down more than 50% since GDS removed AP courses which bring weighting to UC GPA which is a threshold for second round human review in UCB and UCLA process. So I disagree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it might be better to just send your child to a public school.

Agree - that is the path our daughter chose instead of attending the Big3 she was admitted to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP classes matter if you are applying to UC schools. Impossible to get in OOS without any AP classes. Maybe GDS kids don’t want to go to UCLA, Cal, UCSD, etc.?!?

My private in a different metro (outside California) continues to have have matriculations to UC schools - and the matriculation rate to UC schools has not recently changed. It does not have any classes labeled AP. It also does not (and never did) weight GPAs.

It doesn't matter if the private weights the GPAs or not, the UC admissions offices put grades through their own matrix, for both OOS and in state applicants. It also doesn't matter that they have no "official" AP classes, there will be an obvious line of rigor versus remedial that the AO can follow. You act like it's some kind of golden school with special privileges for the UC and it is not.

You missed the point. To be much more clear: good schools (not great, not special, not better, not outstanding, just merely good) which offer zero AP classes are still able to place good students into good UC campuses.

Yeah that wasn't your underlying point though and I didn't miss that.