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[quote=Anonymous]This is a "you're both right" situation. Getting imperfect grades year after year may very well knock out the T10 or maybe T20 schools. If those are what you mean when you say "competitive colleges". Unless your kid is hooked. I remember one AO saying, "listen kids, don't fret - one B is fine". He meant 1 B over 4 years. Or three years - 9th grade doesn't really count. It's like saying a 95% on the SAT is great - it is. But it's also a 1410 and it's not getting you into Yale. Best you can do is talk up some schools that make sense for all smart kids with Aish averages. When you hear a kid got into Princeton, say, "That's awesome. They're going to have so much fun". When you hear a kid got into Syracuse, say, "That's awesome. They're going to have so much fun." Because that's true! Set the tone, it will be fine, And picking the easy teacher sometimes is fine too. high school is hard these days[/quote]
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