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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, but have tried to de-emphasize the over pressure of our youth for our own kids.

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]

There are only 2 things you need to explain to this kid: “pipeline” and “street.”[/quote]

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