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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only the rich ones do, OP.[/quote]
+1 I discouraged my high stats kid from ED to the T10s.   We are UMC but cannot afford 4 years at $80k/year. We have a younger DC.  And we are older parents, so nearing retirement soon.

stats:
4.95 wgpa, 4.0 uwgpa - magnet program
1580 SAT
12+ APs all 5s, except one

DC went to in state with merit aid.[/quote]

Good lord, I'd love to see the calculus behind a WGPA of 4.95 ...[/quote]
Majority of classes were magnet or AP level. And they got all As. DC has a friend who got higher than 4.95 wgpa because they had one more AP class.[/quote]

My Blair magnet grad had stats like this and went to a LAC with a lot of merit money.  DC could not apply to T20 because we couldn't pay for it.[/quote]

For the avoidance of doubt, unless times have changed and your children are not REQUIRED to take certain unweighted classes like PE, a graduating 4.95 WGPA (on a 4.0 scale with a 1.0 GPA weighting for AP or "magnet" classes) is that[b] they only took two unweighted classes over four years, and EVERYTHING ELSE (to the tune of 36 classes, or an average of nine per year) was a weighted course.[/b]

I mean, I'm not calling bullshit. But a HS offering 36 weighted courses is very unusual, much less one offering those 36 weighted courses in every academic period (so as to accommodate the unusual student seeking to take ALL of them).

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Yes, exactly to the bolded.

Several kids at RMIB have 4.90+ wgpa.   It's not BS.  My RMIB kid has a 4.92 wgpa, and 62 credits going into college.   RMIB magnet classes start in 9th grade, and they also start taking AP classes then.  The only non AP/IB/Honors class DC took was PE and one art credit. Every other class was weighted, even the Health class (which was a joke).

It's possible, at least at RMIB.
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