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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First PP, if you don't mind clarifying it would be much appreciated ... [b]are you saying the counselor will check "most rigorous" for the agreed upon college, whatever level college it i[/b]s. For example, if this was not a strong student and counselor and student had agreed Redford was a good choice, the counselor would check "most rigorous" on the Radford application, if the student's record/classes taken meant they were well qualified for Radford.[/quote]
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Absolutely not.  Sorry if I made it sound that way.  I could be wrong, but I think "most rigorous" goes only to those kids taking the most rigorous courses in the school.  So if you were applying to elite slacs, ivies and UVA, UCLA< etc. you would want to make sure that box was checked (the public counselor probably won't tell you).  So I don't think they would check "most rigorous" for Radford - that would require too much of the public high school counselor who is attending to 400 kids plus the juniors coming up the next year.  For example, our DS was a B+ public high school student so we applied only to JMU, GMU (then easier to get in), Radford, etc.  I would not call her taking the "most rigorous" courses at all.  I think she had one AP.

Bear in mind that the college counselor sends each college a class profile of the high school class prior to applications or with them.  So, if your child is a 4.32 student and took 4 AP courses out of 30 offered,and the top GPA is a 4.47,  it takes the school just seconds to figure out their class rank and how rigorous a schedule your student has taken.  So it wouldn't make sense for them to check "most rigorous" for Radford when the class profile indicates that the student was a 3.5 student with no APs.[/quote]

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