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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my unhooked son has no chance at UVA.   Sophomore year had all As and A minuses, freshman year, a mix of As, A minus and B plus.   Current gpa 4.0.   Junior year could get all As.   In Calcus BC and getting an A.   Has a mix of AP and honors this year.    But has chosen to stick with a challenging language and Orchestra, no grade bump.   So best case GPA at end of this year is 4.1ish.   I thought UVA scutinizes the transcript and excuses the B pluses freshman year.[/quote]

You need junior year grades and SATs to know that.  Lots of kids get a .1 bump or more junior year and a .1 bump senior year.  And alangage 4 gets a .5 bump— AP gets a 1.0.  So that will help down the line.  They don’t have the senior grades when they apply, but the Naviance scores factor in senior year.

And here is a dirty little secret. Your kid can take one non-core class a year P-F.  I think it works against your kid, because a 4.0 vs a 4.5 for orchestra averages out to a .01 or less, and the 4 years of As in orchestra looks good. But your kid can take orchestra or language or PE pass fail and not have the unweighted class count.

But my kid and a lot of her friends took summer PE PF.  Her GPaa is above a 4.0 as a rising sophomore. The unweighted 4.0 only hurts her. And I doubt colleges care about her summer PE grade (vs Latin 3 grade, which does matter). [/quote]

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