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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So DCUM.  Someone asks a question.  You give the answer (enrolled students: 75th percentile have a 4.44 GPA, Median is 4.29 and 25th percentile is 4.13.).  They don't like the answer so attack the poster and still think the Langley college counselor is going to help their 3.33 kid get in.  Dream on![/quote]

[b]What kind of delusional parent thinks their 3.33 kid should go to UVA in the first place?  No amount of "help" from an overworked public high school guidance counselor is going to get them in.[/quote][/b]

That's my point, too, but the posters above don't want to hear that message. They think all college counselors will listen to their demand list request of schools and help their child get into all even if they are not appropriate fits.  They don't want the bad news that there are 22 high schools in FCPS and those 22 counselors have varying ways of working and varying relationships with the Virginia universities. Most are not going to spend much effort helping your 3.3 kid get into UVA  but the parents don't want to hear it..  They think there is just one poster saying that the public counselors have to route the public high school grads to the most appropriate schools where they stand a chance to get in.  They don't want to hear that the public counselors will show them the Naviance chances of getting into a school like UVA, show it is almost impossible, and then suggest other "lesser" universities in VA.  The simple fact is that you need to be in the top ten percent of your high school class, have the GPAs posted above (4.1-4.43) and terrific scores and some very impressive ECs to get the attention of the high school counselor for UVA.  Our public high school counselor wouldn't even help our 3.5 child apply to UVA.  She showed us Naviance and said it wasn't going to happen.  That child is now at CNU and very happy.[/quote]

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