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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My kid was admitted early to an Ivy this year with 4 B+ grades 9-11th and 2 first quarter senior year B+ grades (making a total of 6 B's). [/b]White kid with [b]no hooks [/b]at all, applied for financial aid, rigorous NYC private.

Top rigor in all subjects (one of maybe 10 kids at the school in this category). The 2 first quarter senior year B+ grades were in classes that only about 5 kids take each year (because of rigor). My kid has since raised them to As but they were Bs at the time the grades were sent for the ED application as there had only been a single assessment in each class. [/quote]

Doubt this. Quite average for an Ivy admit.

And Early? Don't believe it.[/quote]

No, it absolutely happened. NYC private. I'm probably doxxing my kid because there are only a few where from which this would happen. I wanted to post because I think it's interesting to see that colleges do really read in the context of the high school and courses taken. We have younger kids as well. [/quote]

I have a DC who was admitted ED to an Ivy (don't want to say which, but one with ED vs. REA/SCEA so that helps narrow it down). Has 9 B's across 9th -11th grades. This is from MCPS, which issues semester transcripts. Very high rigor in math/sciences and choice of electives, but not crazy rigor in English/History (meaning Honors, not AP aside from one -AP Lang). While I used to believe people who said essays, LORs, ECs, etc. don't matter that much, at this level  they do. There is simply no other way to explain what people believe to be random. Objective measures (GPA, test scores) mean you'll be considered. Subjective measures tip the scale one way or the other, and the randomness comes from AOs having different opinions and even the same AOs having different opinions on different days. A student may feel their rejection is unfair - and they may be both right and wrong.[/quote]

You mean your child had 9 classes where his or her final grade was a B?

Not really. It was 9 semester Bs - and for some, the other Semester was an A. As one example, they got a B in AP Lang for Semester 1 and then an A for Semester 2. So it's kind of like 4.5 classes had a B. Each year-long class receives two grades. MCPS doesn't combine them into one final grade at the end (it just combines two quarters into one semester).

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