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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Student was never going to Brown or Georgetown. Or GW due to cost. Parents were limiting attendance to instate Virginia schools. Just being sneaky about it.

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Wrong.

Brown’s average admit GPA is 3.9 and 4.3 for weighted.

Yale and Princeton cite 3.9 as their average incoming GPA.

It’s the crazy publics—-MoCO with their 5.0 scale and some Nova schools with unlimited AP courses (which the kids then can’t score a 4 or 5 at the end of the year on the exam).

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What am I missing?  You are conflating weighted with unweighted grades.  The average weighted grade at an Ivy is not a 3.9.[/quote]

And it's not above a 4.3 either!!  That's my point.  If you have an unweighted 4.0 with a minimum of 6-8 AP courses--you are more than fine for the top 10 schools.  At UVA a kid like that would be cutoff, even with high scores because of the serious grade inflation in VA public schools (and multiple chances to retake exams and bring grades up--not realistic) and the need to be a grind and take 12-15 AP courses even when you can't pass the AP exams for them.  That's the kind of student that ends up there.  [/quote]

Everything stated here is false. Like, everything.[/quote]

But what’s important is telling us all that trying something a couple of times to get it right is bad for some reason.

You don’t want your future scientists learning that sometimes there are errors or you focused on the wrong thing and you should work to revise and get the right answer. Only the first attempt counts.

What a load of horseshit. [b]My kid will be doing the work over again until they get it right because the point of education is getting knowledge and learning how to problem solve. [/b]

If that excludes them from UVA and other rejective schools I am totally comfortable with that.

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Well, that's great. Really.  But, your kid should not be getting the same grade on the test/paper in the course as the kids that are getting it correct the first time and turned in.

When I was a kid we did corrections with the teacher and you stayed after to learn what you didn't know, but that didn't turn a 'C' into an 'A'.  You didn't get a grade adjustment to match all of the A students in the class.

Come on, these snowflakes and their parents demanding grade adjustments and crying this stupid crap.[/quote]

For SOME WEIRD REASON though super scoring is fine and taking the SAT seven times is okay too.

[b]If Larla can take the ACT twice and superscore why can’t she take the Chem final twice and superscore? [/b]

[b]It’s the same thing.[/b]

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Interesting take. Especially when it comes to the mandatory SAT/ACT purists.[/quote]

I hope you didn't go to UVA :roll:   Not equivalent at all. [/quote]

The entire admissions system is geared toward what the ( highly selective) college wants. The parents and students have no leverage whatsoever.  So complain about "grade inflation" for GPA or superscore gimmicks for standardized testing, or if a test should be submitted at all, etc. - the equivalent.  Pick your gripe.

The parents will advocate for what gets Larla admitted to Yale. Period. When Larla gets rejected,  the recriminations follow. Rinse and repeat.

[b]And....even implying I went to UVA is an insult. I went to much better colleges. Aim higher.  :)[/b] [/quote]

Yet you are spending your time arguing on a thread about UVA...[/quote]

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