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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Why are you asking a hypothetical?  [/b]
Also, why not just ask whether it is necessary to take APs?  Everyone is saying, yes it is. [/quote]

I'm just wondering if a kid chose to ditch out on the craziness of AP classes and took the tier below - be that honors or general classes, and did extremely well, what kind of outcome could be expected?  Why not ask hypothetically?  It's probably highly unusual that kids who skip out on AP's would make straight A's and have high SAT scores, but it would be interesting to see what the outcome for such a kid would be. [/quote]

Colleges compare your child to the other children from your child's HS.  Your child is in competition with the other students in his school.  Colleges look at the rigor of the classes your child takes as they compare to the rigor of classes offered by your child's HS.   They also want to see that your child challenged himself-so if your child get almost all A's in the nonAP classes, then they would think that your child took an easier route and did not challenge himself.  So, if your child attends a HS where many students take AP/IBs and offers many APs/IB classes (as i the case in most of the HS in NOVA), then your child will be at a disadvantage compared to his peers in his HS that are applying to the same schools.  The harder it is to gain admittance to the school, the harder it will be for your child to gain admittance.

In NOVA, the average GPA for [b]UVA/W&M and VaTech re usually above a 4.0.[/b]  WHen my child was applying toVaTech a few years ago, accept/reject line was around 3.8.  Most of the students who get in in the lowest quartile have another thing going for them ( e.g. Athlete, URM,  history of large family donations....).  [/quote]

true but UVAs has jumped to 4.36-4.45.  For Tech engineering they want to see more than a 4.0. and concomitant ACT/SAT scores.[/quote]

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