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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few more A minuses will really decrease the overall GPA and therefore the acceptances (from a top private--I don't know the public world).

My child had about half A minuses, half As and an overall GPA of 3.84.  He did significantly worse in admissions than kids who had fewer A minuses and an overall 3.94. 
My kid: into places like Michigan, UCLA, Emory, WashU.  Denied at lower ivies, etc. 
3.94 kids: HYP and other top 15s.

I'm not going to share specific extracurriculars but my kid's were really good.  Applied as a humanities major, had a narrative, testing was over the threshold (35), etc. The GPA (more A minuses) was really a huge differentiator. [/quote]

Michigan recalculates +/-  to the flat letter grade. B+s hurt, A- does not.

Cornell cares a lot about unexplained Cs.  We were told that at an admissions presentation.  Sounded fairly disqualifying barring a major life event.[/quote]

In the UC system, A- is recalculated to be the same as an A, and a B+ or B-  is recalculated to the same as a B. In other words, A- does no harm, B+ pulls down the GPA. Also they only look at 10th and 11th grade to calculate the UC GPA, and there is capped weighting for honors (you can’t weight more than 8 semesters with an extra +1 for honors or AP). Bizarrely, doing more than 8 honors weighted semesters will actually pull DOWN the UC GPA because any extras are averaged in as a 4. Combine that with UC Test blind policy, and over reliance on foreign grad students to
actually teach the courses
and you get much much overrated undeserved
reputation. [/quote]

If a kids has all As and 2 A- in the most rigorous classes in 10th and 11th grade from a good high school, are chances really good to get into UC perhaps even Cal and UCLA? If they are test blind and don't care about legacy and ECs, what else do they consider? [/quote]

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