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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take honors if your DC can handle. It gives tremendous wGPA boost.  [/quote]

This.  It saddens me that parents not in the know believe that "honors" is so much harder that it should be avoided.  Unweighted GPA points so significantly change a GOA that it has a serious negative effect on college admissions.

To me non-honors enrollment in mixed classes is the modern equivalent of separate but equal...[/quote]

[b]Elite colleges no longer care nearly as much about GPA, weighted or unweighted, as they did a generation ago.[/b]  They care about students pursuing academic challenge, evidence of intellectual curiosity, academic awards and accomplishments, writing skills, extra-curricular accomplishments and standardized test scores.  I have a nephew who was ranked 60th in his class when he graduated from a MoCo public school last year, yet fared better in college admissions than anybody in the top ten (no, he's not an athlete, he won various science prizes, scored 800s on SAT subject tests and 5s on half a dozen APs).  How do I know this?  I earn a good living as an independent college counselor.  
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You must be a terrible college counselor. Top tiers don't care because almost everyone has perfect stats. Lower tier schools certainly do care about GPAs - w and uw. [/quote]

So you agree with the PP, but still say he is a terrible counselor?   :roll: [/quote]

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