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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, there are honors and non-honors electives?  So if a kid picks electives they're passionate about and they don't happen to be honors, while other kids are taking honors electives, that would bring down their GPA like 0.2-0.3 right off the bat, right?  And aren't schools like UMCP really focused on the top GPA kids for acceptance?  Gosh, this sucks.  [/quote]

My kid ended up with a weird amount of non-honors classes and still was accepted to UMD. For example, she took the equivalent of study hall one semester so she could take health as an evening class and she needed a “class” to be allowed to stay on campus during her free period. Needless to say there is no “honors” section of study hall. She also explored various interests in non-honors classes because she hadn’t done the pre-requisites in middle school to start at the honors level. She was in a magnet for middle school that offered less time for electives. I sense many magnet kids end up having to take more non-honors classes than their peers in HS for the same reason.[/quote]

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