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[quote=Anonymous]Curious what others think. My kid refuses to take regular-level classes, even in subjects that are clearly not his strength. Every year, he loads up on AP and DE courses across the board. He usually starts with low grades like Cs or even a D early on, then slowly pulls up to a B or B+ by the end. That’s the pattern. There’s no collapse or dramatic recovery, just a grind to stay afloat and finish with a decent grade. He took a regular class once, got an easy A, and decided he’s never doing that again. He says regular classes are for “dumb kids” and will not budge.

The one area where he excels without any issue is computer science. He takes the most advanced CS classes offered at his school, including AP CS A and dual enrollment CS, and consistently earns straight As. It is clearly where he’s strongest.

He is a junior now with a 1450 SAT. We’ve enrolled him in an SAT prep course that he attends three times a week to try to push that score higher before senior year. His target schools are UVA and Virginia Tech, and MIT is the dream.

Outside of computer science, his transcript is mostly Bs in the hardest available classes. AP U.S. History, AP Macroeconomics, AP Lang, DE Gov, AP Calc AB — all of them land in the B range. Meanwhile, I see so many posts on this forum about students getting perfect As in everything and having near-perfect GPAs.

So what’s the actual outlook for a kid like this? Does strong performance in advanced CS and solid but not stellar grades elsewhere hold up at schools like UVA or Virginia Tech? Or does it just look like overreaching without follow-through? I’m wondering if anyone has had a kid like this and knows how it played out.[/quote]

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