Reply to Is a C on a high school transcript the death knell for college admissions at reputable schools?

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Is a C on a high school transcript the death knell for college admissions at reputable schools?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Read what the admissions person said, I would second that having also worked previously in college admissions. There is absolutely no way that a grade from 7th or 8th grade will make the least bit of difference if in 10th-12th grade the student has a stellar record.  Kids grow up at different rates, and particularly boys have trouble with organization at age 12/13.  Colleges realize that! They actually struggle to keep their admit classes 50/50 or even close because by high school even many more girls have fabulous grades than boys, girls are a lot better at following instructions, not procrastinating, and being organized enough to complete assignments on time and carefully.  So if scores are great, high school grades are great and recommendations, activities etc are great then this will not "come back to haunt him", but as other posters said, it is an opportunity to get him some help or help him yourself with organization.  More of a concern is whether he actually has fully participated in and understood the class. If the in class exams have good scores and the teacher says he has fully mastered the material by end end of the year, great, but if not the bigger problem will be going into high school math classes underprepared and for that reason he perhaps should consider repeating the course (or make him take it again in summer school, that might motivate him not to goof off again!)[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics