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[quote=Anonymous]So I've used kickstart with my older DC (now a college freshman) and am just starting to use it with my younger DC, now a high school junior.

it's supposed to help your kid build a balanced college list by incorporating the school's historical data, then telling you if you've got too many reaches, or out of reach schools (unlikely) etc.

OP, if your high school's kickstart is only using unweighted GPAs, it's because your high school set it up like that.  Our high school shifted from weighted to unweighted GPAs, so with my older DC, we used weighted, and the younger DC we are using unweighted.

I think you have to recognize its limitations.  First, the numbers don't take into account if prior students had hooks or not (or, if your kid has a hook or not).

Second, I don't think it takes into account if these prior kids were accepted ED or RD.  For instance, my older DC goes to College X, and from our high school, no one gets into College X on RD.  So, if you don't know that, and you put College X on your list, but not as your #1, it may look like your kid has a good chance, but they don't.

So the way to use it, I think, is to come up with some sort of list that is balanced, and then discuss it with your school's college counselor to see how to tweak it.[/quote]

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