For top schools, yes one B will hurt your chances

[Anonymous]

I really don’t care. If you want to twist your kids into emotional pretzels I’ve “too schools” have at it. We’ve opted out of this race to nowhere. And have no worries over our kids future opportunities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unhooked DD got into multiple Ivies, Ivy+'s, and WASP schools with a couple B's in Spanish over the years. She was still top 5% and also had strong rigor, test scores, ECs, and, LORs. YMMV.

She’s probably full pay, and that’s a hook.

LOL. No, that’s not a “hook”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unhooked DD got into multiple Ivies, Ivy+'s, and WASP schools with a couple B's in Spanish over the years. She was still top 5% and also had strong rigor, test scores, ECs, and, LORs. YMMV.

She’s probably full pay, and that’s a hook.

LOL. No, that’s not a “hook”.

God I wish full pay was a hook

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unhooked DD got into multiple Ivies, Ivy+'s, and WASP schools with a couple B's in Spanish over the years. She was still top 5% and also had strong rigor, test scores, ECs, and, LORs. YMMV.

She’s probably full pay, and that’s a hook.

LOL. No, that’s not a “hook”.

God I wish full pay was a hook

Me too. It has become a negative. Two ivy tours this summer bragged how they have more than half on need based aid and aim to get the percent up. One said they were the highest % in the country (need based aid).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unhooked DD got into multiple Ivies, Ivy+'s, and WASP schools with a couple B's in Spanish over the years. She was still top 5% and also had strong rigor, test scores, ECs, and, LORs. YMMV.

She’s probably full pay, and that’s a hook.

LOL. No, that’s not a “hook”.

God I wish full pay was a hook

+3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unhooked DD got into multiple Ivies, Ivy+'s, and WASP schools with a couple B's in Spanish over the years. She was still top 5% and also had strong rigor, test scores, ECs, and, LORs. YMMV.

She’s probably full pay, and that’s a hook.

LOL. No, that’s not a “hook”.

God I wish full pay was a hook

Me too. It has become a negative. Two ivy tours this summer bragged how they have more than half on need based aid and aim to get the percent up. One said they were the highest % in the country (need based aid).

Full pay is definitely a hook at lower ranked schools, particularly Liberal Arts colleges.

[Anonymous]

lol no.

My kid got into MIT with a D in calculus his last semester junior year.

He did get a perfect score on math lol sat.