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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few more A minuses will really decrease the overall GPA and therefore the acceptances (from a top private--I don't know the public world).

My child had about half A minuses, half As and an overall GPA of 3.84.  He did significantly worse in admissions than kids who had fewer A minuses and an overall 3.94. 
My kid: into places like Michigan, UCLA, Emory, WashU.  Denied at lower ivies, etc. 
3.94 kids: HYP and other top 15s.

I'm not going to share specific extracurriculars but my kid's were really good.  Applied as a humanities major, had a narrative, testing was over the threshold (35), etc. The GPA (more A minuses) was really a huge differentiator. [/quote]

Also, I can share that observed this in other kids too (good friends of my child)  and it wasn't unique to mine. Those who were in the high 3.8 range due to more A minuses did significantly worse in admissions than the mid 3.9 kids, regardless of extracurricular, etc. [/quote]

DP - how about if the A- and B+ were all in 9th grade and the report card trends up with all As in 10th and 11th? A kid like this may still have a 3.88 GPA/under 3.9 but may actually be doing better than the 3.92 kids if those kids got straight As in 9th but mostly A- by junior year[/quote]

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