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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question:  doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?[/quote]

In my DD's school (in Loudoun County), hardly anyone gets As in AP History courses.  There are other scattered courses that are difficult to get As in, but AP history is notoriously difficult.  So, even many of the top and brightest kids do not get straight As (if they are taking the most rigorous courses).  Not sure how it is at other schools or other counties.[/quote]

Second that....AP History is tough for our DD (C+) for right now....and she is a sophomore.[/quote]
General rule of thumb is that AP classes are not an appropriate academic choice if your student cannot get a B or higher[/quote]

Sadly this seems very true lately.  We have had kids with very little AP's but higher GPA's getting into much better schools than those with more B's than A's and a C here or there in AP's.  Which really truly sucks.  They are basically telling kids to take it easy, don't challenge yourself and get the easy A.  This is NOT what happens in college and kids are so sad/depressed/anxious when they realize that they can't get easy A's in college.  And the even bigger irony is most jobs do not give one crap what your GPA was when you graduated.  [/quote]

Honestly, and I know it won't be well received, they don't want to see C's at all. If you don't think you can get at least a B/B+ in an AP class, then you should take the Honors class and get the higher grade. My dc got into UVA EA with a GPA of 4.07. Took 10 AP classes, grades were on his transcript for 5 of them: B+, A-, A-, A- and A. Current senior year grades in his 5 AP classes are three A-'s and two A's. People question how a kid gets in with that GPA, and that's how it happens. A rigorous courseload with more A-'s than A's, and a handful of B's. The individual grades add up to more than the sum of their parts.[/quote]

But my guess is you are talking about public schools who seriously weigh their grades.  [b][b]Do Virginia schools have grading systems like Maryland does?  Where a B and an A always equal an A no matter what?[/b] [/b] Of course no C's shouldn't be seen.  But what about a private school.  Many top privates do not offer inflated grades and barely weight anything.  [/quote]

What are you talking about? 
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In FCPS, it's numerical.  So our son who had 89.4% still got a B+ and not an A-.  I was surprised because I heard so much about grade inflation etc.  But at least at his school it seems they go by the numbers and there's no "extra credit" allowed for anything.[/quote]

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