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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread depresses me.  The notion that one bad grade or a handful of Bs derails kids’ chances when they are otherwise strong applicants is really a bummer for these kids.  Yes, there is more to life than top-ranked colleges and they will all be fine regardless, but given that rising seniors have spent most of their high school years in a pandemic, it would be nice if they could just catch a break without having to justify why one grade doesn’t reflect who they are as a student.  [/quote]

But realistically-the kid with straight As through high school and the kid with a handful of Bs or a D are fundamentally different students. I have both in my family (in fact they're twins) and they're very, very different kids and frankly they shouldn't be going to the same college.  their work ethics, academic inclinations, etc are quite different. [/quote]

This just isn’t true. My older son took all most rigorous classes - through linear algebra and AP physics, and graduated with all As and a handful of Bs. My younger who is a rising HS senior also takes rigorous classes but a notch below (AP calculus AB instead of BC, AP envt’l science instead of physics, won’t take AP world language until senior year), and is on track to graduate with a 4.0. Both are equally strong students, I’d argue the older was always up for more academic challenge, and the younger has been able to avoid Bs by taking AB calc, etc. [/quote]

You just stated the older "was up for more academically challenge". Well that is the difference often times between those who attend  "elite" and the next level of colleges.  Your 2nd kid is obviously very smart too, but not as self motivated as the other, or he'd have taken the more "rigorous" courses.  Both will do extremely well, and will thrive wherever they go. But the first will have a better chance at an Elite admission. 
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It is the older that has a few Bs! I was responding to a prior poster who said there is a difference between a 4.0 student and a student with a handful of Bs. My older has a few Bs because he was up for trying BC calculus and AP physics instead of AB calculus and AP ES like his sibling who has the 4.0. [/quote]

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