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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At SSSAS, upper school students must be in honors or AP sections to compete for top college admission. The only exceptions are recruited athletes. While the school does not officially rank students, it does share a scatter plot of all students in the grade showing where a college applicant’s GPA is positioned. On this chart, Honors and AP grades are weighted just as they are at public schools. Depending on the student’s goals this may or may not matter. Many parents are not aware of this or at least were not in the past. It is not something the faculty or administration shared without being specifically asked. Also, SSSAS upper school  parents should encourage their children who are not in honors or AP classes to take the AP exams. Particularly in non-stem classes they are likely to do very well. This will help expand their college choices and also save money and/or time spent on college prerequisites. Be aware, when transferring to a public high school that offers honors and AP classes, former  SSSAS students’ grades transfer with the honors and ap weighting. If your child transfers to a public high school from SSSAS without any honors or AP classes at SSSAS,  they will be ranked significantly lower than the public high school’s students who have the same level of academic accomplishment because public high school students who match an SSSAS student’s achievement will have been enrolled in honors classes.  Even if your former SSSAS student goes on to earn unweighted A’s and B’s in honors and AP at the public high school, including STEM Classes, if they entered with an unweighted SSSAS 3.0 after 10th grade, they will find it impossible to lift their GPA enough to to be in the top 10% of the public high school class. They will do very well in all public high school honors and AP classes, and on AP tests and standardized tests, if they have been motivated all along. To summarize, your student will get a rigorous education at SSSAS. But unless their SATs are superior, the scatter plot (for those who stay at SSSAS and graduate) or the unweighted GPAs (those who transfer) will reduce the probability of their admission at private colleges, and will destroy their admissions chances at top state universities. Of course there is more to a college education than the name of the institution. But if that is important to your family, it may be worth transferring immediately if your student is not considered honors or AP material at SSSAS.[/quote]
What do you mean when you say top college? Ivy, top 10, top 20,…..?
Can a recruited athlete get to an Ivy without taking honors or AP courses?[/quote]

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