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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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). White kid with no hooks 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]

What kind of rigor?  What extracurriculars[/quote]

The school doesn't offer APs. There are 400 level classes, mostly seminars. The one with 5 kids in it is a literature seminar. DC also took a seminar in French language and multiple 400 level science classes which are sub-specialty classes (post what would be considered AP). It's not unusual to take this in 1 or 2 subjects but very kids take 5 or more. I'd estimate this to be 10 kids, maybe 20. Grades in seminars are usually based on 1 or 2 assessments (a paper or a portfolio) so it's not unusual to get a B first quarter on the first draft of this and then get it turned up to an A.

No ROTC or sports or anything involved. Kid applied as a language major which probably helped. [/quote]

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