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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I[b]t’s amazing to me that a parent and readers see 4.6 and yet nobody is asking “ in what?”

The classes matter people.[/b]  You can’t just say I had a 4.6 and whine about it and don’t know mention the classes on the transcript over 4 years.

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My kids go to McLean HS and you CANNOT reach a 4.6 without taking as many AP classes as you can fit into your schedule. That means most of your core classes have to be APs. Sure there is some leeway so that you can take AP Envir Sci instead of AP Chem [b]but you cannot skip out on many of the hard APs in your core classes and reach a gpa as high as 4.6. With a gpa of 4.6, you have to assume the rigor is there[/b].[/quote]

So 4 years of rigor and intense focus are there, on the record.  And yet:

- some posters are theorizing the student was completely clueless on the essay?  He had no idea what his dream university might value in an essay??

Puh-leeze!  That makes no sense whatsoever.

Y[b]ield protection makes perfect sense here.  [/quote][/b]

You are making no sense. UVA doesn't yield protect.  SCHEV shows the 75th percentile has a 4.5, 35 AT or 1520 SAT in THE MOST RIGOROUS courses, which is how they have a 4.53.  That's how you get in to UVA.  It doesn't need to yield protect with 53,000 applications and, as a public, it doesn't have the resources to devote to yield protection[/quote]

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