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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not an either/or question. They can “reach big” as long as they identify targets and safeties that they also like.

My humanities kid has a 4.0 uw with 10 APs, top 7% of class, TO. Has gotten into a top 30 LAC (target) with top merit and a few 50%+ admit rate state schools with top merit or honors. Rejected from two top 25 universities, still waiting on a few top 20 SLACs (all of them varying degrees of reaches).[/quote]

I am new to this with a junior as well. Wouldn’t 4.0 uw mean top 1% of class and valedictorian? I mean, there is [b]no better gpa than perfect.[/b]  [/quote]

No, weighted GPA tied to rigor of classes considered. 7% sounds about right for 10 APs. My kid has a 4.95 weighted GPA and is not in the top 1% of his class. 3-5% probably.[/quote]
4.95 is not the top 1%? Wow. I didn’t even know gpas went that high! [/quote]

He's at a magnet, lots of 4.0 UW kids taking top-rigor curriculum. [/quote]

Assuming MCPS magnet, how can a kid get higher than a 4.0.  I thought all kids have Alg 1, Levels 1 and 2 of a language, and PE, all of which are unweighted.  4.95 would mean those 4 classes are 5% of the total, which would mean they took 80 credits.  What am I missing?

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You can take language in middle school so that when you get to 9th grade you are in level 3.   I think it’s just PE which is unweighted now. [/quote]

But don’t the classes taken in middle school go into the gpa?[/quote]

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