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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is he retaking it with those high grades?[/quote]

He received a B and clearly knew the material.[/quote]

I feel truly sorry for your child. You need to get a grip on reality.[/quote]

DP. I personally wouldn’t let or make my child retake a class if there original grade was a B. But,To play devils advocate here, colleges are very competitive these days and every B hurts a child’s chances to get into the IVY’s. Maybe this B really effects the child’s chances?[/quote]
Not if it is just one or two Bs on the transcript.[b] My DC in a magnet program had 3 Bs on their transcript. Still got accepted to 3 ivies in 2020. [/b]They had such high overall academic strengths and high level of extracurricular involvement that a few Bs along the way didn't matter.

Another way to think about it is that if all you have going for you is your GPA, you aren't getting into Ivies anyway.

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I would love for you to talk to my magnet kid.  She has only one B, and has a very high level of extracurricular involvement but is convinced she won't get into anyplace other than UMdCP based on what she saw happen in the last couple of years to her friends applying.  Everyone she knows who got into Ivies either was a recruited athlete, a legacy, or was on the School Board.[/quote]

Where are you posting from? No one here calls it UMdCP! And only one student at a time sits on the school board and we all call him or her the SMOB.

Anyway, your alleged MCPS kid would be lucky to get into UMD. Many magnet students with one B do not. UMD would rather get an out of state kid. [/quote]

Posting from MoCo where I’ve lived for 12 years!  I know it’s called the SMOB but didn’t think most people would know that acronym.  (The SMOBs from the last couple years had multiple Ivy admits so it does inflate the Ivy admits a little,). I do think people. All it UMDCP now to distinguish it from UMDGC — there’s more than one UMD that is a viable option now for kids.   I have a general pet peeve on DcUm when people accuse you of not being local because you use slightly different terminology than they use themselves.  It’s like you cant conceive that there might be someone slightly different from you that uses different words or has a different experience.[/quote]

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