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Reply to "Is 8th grade pre-algebra or algebra?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I want my kids to get into UVA, VT, JMU, William & Mary. If you're okay with Christopher Newport or Radford or paying twice as much for a "good" school out of state that's fine. I'm not. Our kids have to compete with the other Northern Virginia kids for spots. There may or may not be official quotas at the state schools, but the admissions office definitely compares applicants against all the other applicants from the same school and county. If one kid has a less rigorous course load they aren't getting in.[/quote] If you're only thinking about VA state schools, then yes, it's a competitive atmosphere. But there are a lot more pieces to the puzzle than whether they take Algebra 1 in 8th grade. And for UVA, you're likely talking about top 5% of a NoVa HS class and ED, so those kids might actually be taking Geometry in 8th grade. But making a blanket statement that kids that are on a Standard Track aren't college bound? That's just not true. [/quote]
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