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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please remember that at all of these schools - the elite admissions are VERY heavily skewed to students with a hook. It isn't the school (which Big 3 or 5 or 7) that is getting the kids in, it's the hook (the HS is NOT the hook).[/quote]

Yes and no. The school provides the transcript that lets the elite college say  that the hooked kid is “just as good” as the unhooked kid they turned away. No class ranking, no APs, and obscure course names like “Math 1” muddy the water, making that comparison harder, which is sometimes just what the hooked kid needs.[/quote]

Yes - the AOs do not seem to be taking into account the difference in work that is required (or the difference in how hard grading is ) between "Math #" series and traditional math courses (or science 1/science 1A) for two "just as good" candidates.  [/quote]

Schools get 90,000 applications. The readers are paid hourly. The admissions offices are staffed by graduates of that school who were at the bottom of the class themselves. [/quote]

Agreed - but this is why it would help if these schools were better at communicating rigor via a transcript. To (just for colleges) create a weighted rank that takes into account rigor of a Math 1 ([b]Chem 1A[/b]) student who gets an A- (with far more work expected) compared to the Geometry or Algebra II ([b]Chem 1[/b]) student getting the same A- (or even an A).[/quote]

correction[/quote]

Is it true that Holton Arms indicates a higher grade on the transcript for their advanced or accelerated classes? [/quote]

What does this even mean?[/quote]

Holton profile verifies and explains it:

[url]https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1666104665/holtonarms/tmjzp6e174qqabcx49cs/schoolprofilesy2023_921.pdf[/url][/quote]

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