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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College admission to in-state schools is very area/your HS specific. Ignore advice coming from FCPS and NoVa. Btw, vise versa. [/quote]

This. Also, for the most part, we didn't talk about college at home until the kids brought it, at the end of 10th grade for one kid, and after the start of 11th grade for our oldest DS -- but our kids are in private school where the expectation is that everyone is going to college. I, on the other hand, started reading the DCUM college forum about a year before they started looking at colleges, and learned a lot that was very useful later on. I don't think I fully understood for instance, how ED helps you, and where to look for merit aid. You have to sort through the advice, but it was much more informative, and easier to read than the stuff on college confidential, which I just don't find very helpful.

Know that there are different paths to the same place. DS is at a pretty selective school.  His roommate got there with a perfect 4.0 unweighted GPA, but a pretty mediocre SAT score. DS got there with a mediocre GPA, taking very tough courses which he chose on his own, but a sky-high SAT score. They are both doing great in college. [/quote]

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