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Btw, a D, even in a rigorous class, is not a good thing for anyone.  But I agree that retaking course senior year shows perseverance.  Student (and counselor) need to come up with a viable explanation for why it happened.  It wont stop you from getting into most schools, but it will for the T20-30/elite schools, unless there is a really good reason (family death, major illness, etc). [/quote]

DCUM wisom on minimum acceptable grades in rigorous classes?[/quote]

If you are aiming for an Ivy of T15-20, none.  Or 1-2 A-/B+ max.  These are the schools with too many perfect candidates.

Let’s look at a “good”, solid sDMV admission.   My unhooked  DD got in WM ED with:

3 Bs/4As freshman (4honors),

5As, a B+ and 2 B-s in 10th (B-s had to do ADHD with having trouble getting work in at the beginning of COVID and we’re explained by counselor; she took a summer class, so 8 grades) 2 honors and and 1 AP (dropped to standard Algebra 2)

6As, 1B (AP Lang) in 11th.  3 APs.

12th didn’t matter, because ED, but 6As, 1B

10 APs total, 4s and 5s on the 5 she had taken and submitted scores. 34 ACT (36 verbal, 32 STEM)

So, 8Bs, no Cs.  3.99 W when she applied, 4.09 at graduation.

She demonstrated interested in WM, which they love, interviewed, went to IR fall focus day, wrote the supplemental essay and took AP Latin plus every humanities AP her school offers except psych.

She did have some interesting/ outside the box class selections and ECs.

She would not have been admitted RD. [/quote]

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