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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No pressure to take intensified classes since there aren’t any at HB and therefore kids will always be in the most rigorous classes for purposes of colleges until they take AP their junior or senior year.  This does not seem fair.[/quote]

What is the unfair advantage? Being less challenged before going on to college?

I don't know who the H-B hater is on this board but you need to find a productive hobby. This one is pretty sad. [/quote]

Don’t be coy. [b]The counselors will mark their transcript “most rigorous” and they are ranked the same as a IB diploma WL grad[/b]. Admissions aren’t looking at individual courses for every applicant. On top of the small school size it’s a great advantage.

They are challenged fine, because the on level courses can be taught with more rigor because they don’t have kids who can barely read with checkout parents in their general population (thanks opt in only lottery). [/quote]

College admissions is not some purely quantitative formula where every input matters down to the fourth decimal point. For one thing, rigor of the high school program is only looked at to evaluate the GPA, which is given less weight than test scores assuming you sent them in. And at most of the top 50-100 schools and at all of the public colleges and universities in Virginia, there are dozens if not hundreds of kids with the exact same stats and profiles. An H-B graduate versus an IB diploma from WL doesn't matter that much in a pool of 56,000 applications to UVA. The advantage at H-B is for the kids themselves--preparing them for college by giving them more independence and responsibility, and giving more individual-level support with the application process. But it's not an advantage in admissions [u]decisions[/u]. 
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"Who Gets In and Why" clearly showed they don't look at individual transcripts that closely, they mostly look at GPA combined with the flag as "most rigorous" course selection from the counselor.  Which is way way easier to get with fewer tough courses at HB.

I guess you can say it doesn't matter because "numbers" but in the end its still an edge.[/quote]

I can't believe you think admissions counselors see these kids as anything other than "another UMC kid from northern VA with a 4.X and 15XX on the SAT and a bunch of ECs" and almost randomly pick some percentage of them to attend. They are all pretty much the same after a certain point, it [u]just doesn't matter.[/u] Unclench. [/quote]

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