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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. My DC would never, ever agree to even consider a CC.  Maybe learned that from us, maybe not, but many many college-bound HS students simply won't do it.

2.  Risk:  what if the program changes only after a student enters CC?

3.  Risk:  If the goal is CC to Top-Public, the grade requirements aren't a cakewalk.  The 2+2 program is not a guarantee and admission to the top-3 (UVA, W&M, VT) remains challenging.

4.  Could be harmful to have CC on one's transcript, for some grad school admissions in particular.  
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The program for UVA is, actually, a complete guarantee for achieving a 3.5 and taking a certain number of classes in certain subjrcts.  A cakewalk?  Maybe not.  But not too hard to pull off.  [b][i][u]Anyone who starts in this program wound be grandfathered in, in the event of a change[/u][/i].[/b]  [/quote]

Sorry, PP, that simply isn't the case.  Most of the individual agreement that govern NoVa contain provisions that permit the receiving 4-year college to terminate, and that require renegotiation and re-execution every three years; the UVA agreement is terminable on one year's notice, can be reviewed for modification at any time, and expressly provides no rights or remedies to an individual student-applicant.  There's no binding grandfather clause in any of them.  [/quote]

It's not in the contract, but I can't conceive of UVA dinging a kid midstream this way.  Strange how you are almost hoping it's otherwise.[/quote]

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