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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just here to say I wish schools only looked at 11th and 12th for gpa. It’s insane to expect consistent perfection, ambition, and long-term planning from kids from 14/15 -17/18 without intense parental control. Wonder why helicopter parents became a thing? I don’t. Colleges reward premature frontal lobe development and controlling parenting ([b]even parents doing some of the kids work[/b])[/quote]

Do parents really do this? Lol! I don't think my kid would want me attempting his precalc or physics especially since I never took those classes. [/quote]

Yes.   Especially last year with virtual learning.  And not just parents.   I even heard about someone (friend of a friend) having their kid's foreign language tutor "sitting with" the student during a vritual test.

Basically if a kid is a current senior who had low freshmen/sophmore grade but "thrived" junior year with virtual learning, I'm going to assume there was some form of cheating involved.   That's why it's important that OP's kid ALSO did well on the SAT.  In that case, i would NOT assume cheating.  [/quote]

I'll bite. DS struggled freshmen year, had a neuropsych eval half way through followed by accommodations and meds, and steadily improved. Was in hybrid mode for all of junior year where his grades really picked up, then has been all As since start of senior year. Yes, there are probably some cheating, but there are others in the slow-to-mature category. DS got a great ACT score and submitted with the rest of his app.

DS was hurt because the school scrapped grades for the spring semester during the first lockdown. He could have used another 3.7 semester for his overall GPA. He got into a T10 LAC, but might have shot for a T5 with a slightly higher GPA. [/quote]

Yeah, I don't really buy this. Some other hook going on here. [/quote]

Buy what?[/quote]

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