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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is in FCPS and in her second year of some high school credit classes (language/math). It is obvious from conversations that she doesn’t understand the impact of her grades on her high school GPA and ultimately college opportunities.

She is a mostly A student, but ended 7th grade Algebra with a B+ . On the one hand she is highly self motivated, an avid reader and excellent writer. On the other hand she puts a lot of stress on herself and doesn’t understand time management or that the high school courses require the most focus as they “count.”

Parents: Graduated College in 2002/2003 from HYP  and a SLAC having grown up in a high pressure cooker environment where everyone we knew was college bound. We both have graduate degrees and doing well,[b] but have tried to de-emphasize the over pressure of our youth for our own kids[/b].

Yet, so much of our education was funneling us, we understood young that we needed to be “well rounded, high achieving and in solid stand out ECs.”

Is there a class for younger kids? Should we casually be visiting college campuses? I just feel like it is both way more competitive now, and some how my child is clueless. (So maybe we the parents are too about how to prepare her.) [/quote]

Yet here you are worried about a B+ in 7th grade.[/quote]

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