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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is a rising senior (finishing junior right now).  Rigorous private high school.  Recovering a lot of points towards the end but just not enough.  What is a realistic outlook on college application?  Focusing on T40-60?  Is that realistic?  For context, B+ to A are considered good grades in DC’s school.  DC gets mostly As in other courses, nothing below B+.  Won’t major in math or engineering.[/quote]

Hi OP please know that there are people in the private school universe who understand your dilemma and are pulling for your kid. We get it. Understand that very few kids are taking this class as a junior. Ask me how I know? I would set up an appointment with point of contact for your grade. Do not push this aside. You should be direct and say the facts-know how many kids take this class and bring up you are concerned that this will be lost in the mix. Put this on the school as to how they will figure this out. Work out a plan together on how to overcome this? Maybe it is an online class? Maybe it is taking over this summer? Maybe it is tutoring to make sure he rocks BC. The most important thing is respectfully make a point that if your kid was in public this would be a B plus because they get a point for AP on top of grade. Make sure you are all on same page. It is better to figure this out now than wait until senior year. If you are talking about a kid with mostly As and this is an anomaly then this should be used as an asset for applications. Understand that if you do not have this sort of curriculum you will not get advice on DCUM that will be helpful. Good luck and tell you kid he is awesome!![/quote]

Our public 1/3rd get C's in Calc. Not sure where you get the idea this kid would have pulled a B+ at a public.[/quote]

They just mean that the C+, ordinarily a 2.3, would be a 3.3 with the GPA bump for taking an AP. Rigorous privates are too good for AP courses or GPA bumps, so kids like OP’s just get screwed. [/quote]

GPA bumps only exist for class rank. They aren't used for any sort of comparison across school systems. [/quote]

[b]Not at selective schools.[/b] But a lot of less-competitive colleges and universities use transcript GPA, which includes the GPA bump. Guaranteed admission at VCU, for example, is a 3.5, and they use the weighted GPA if it’s printed on your transcript. So private school kids are less likely to be able to rely on schools like that as safeties. A lot of private school parents  on here would never deign to send a kid to VCU, but also hate the fact that if they wanted to go there, it would be harder for their kid to get in. [/quote]

Please stop. You are wrong. The weight added to an AB, IB, or DE course is part of a weighted GPA, not part of the grade shown by the course name on the transcript. I have no idea what you mean by what is bolded above, but this is how it is done.

Notwithstanding your dissing VCU as a viable option for a  private school kid:
- many private and public school kids have the 3.5 unweighted;
- you can still get the guaranteed admission by being in the top 10% of the class (fcps doesnt rank kids so all schools that do get the same kind of advantage you are arguing about in your post re: weighted courses v unweighted)

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