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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to all the snobs on here dumping on less academically selective schools. There are many to choose from on here and they are all fully of nasty comments about certain schools, tiers of schools. The kids hear these comments and it stresses them out and makes them aim for the brand name schools. The only way to aim for those is to take as many APs as possible and do well in them.

Get B's in them? The "rigor" is then all for naught. This is the position my DC is in (floating between B and A- . . . hard to tell as her teachers seem allergic to grading things in all college classes junior year). Likely will not be aiming for the same schools as was on the radar this time last year. Even though taking the hardest APs our school offers (Chem, Precalc, USH). Doesn't seem to matter.

It's particularly irritating when you see the GPAs of college students posted on the websites, which are at or below what many kids' GPAs are now (in all college classes) but they are required to have all As.

As it is my kid will likely take the above average (but not all A) grades and chase merit at schools that everyone trashes here. Certainly no top 20 schools. No top 50 schools. And will have no debt and lots of money left for grad school due to merit. In the end it will be fine but it is a tough pill to see these kids work so so hard and have a B or 2 or 3 be the difference. [/quote]

Hordes of kids are in the exact same position, mine included.
Those kids who worked their tails off, have a few B’s on their transcript and they will end up at colleges that they didn’t need to work so insanely for. It is what it is. Hopefully their smarts & work ethic takes them far. [/quote]

In hindsight, I prob would have argued more strenuously to my DC to not take so many APs in such hard classes. I did advise as such but ultimately let it be their call. They are also overscheduled (also their call, not mine) and that is a contributing factor. Would have preferred DC scale back on the rigor and the activities. [/quote]

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