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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former NCS parent here and I can't stress the importance of weighing the rigor of the curriculum your daughter selects.  My daughter was a B student with great standardized test scores, was right below the NMSF cut off and did great on SATs and ACTs.  She took the very rigorous courses - AP Chem in 11th, AP Physics C in 12th, honors math 9-11 and AP BC in 12th (did not get to HLAVC), AP US and AP Language in 11th grade etc.  She ended up at Notre Dame with other acceptances at great places like Haverford, William & Mary etc.  Her peers who took "easier" APs like AP Statistics, AP Bio, AP and less rigorous courses in general - art over engineering, regular math etc. ended up at places like Virginia Tech, Syracuse, UM College Park.  [/quote]

At another competitive high school, the college counselors are pretty pointed in challenging parental expectations that their children take the hardest possible courses in every subject. They like to point out that getting Bs in subjects they don't like and don't expect to pursue in college is less advantageous than taking advanced courses in the classes they do enjoy and getting As. They encouraged my humanities-oriented DC to take all the really advanced literature electives (that DC will get As) that he loves rather than to slog through an AP science class and get a B.  A transcript of only Bs in really tough courses will put any student behind their Ivy bound classmates.  Almost no one at our school gets straight As, so the Ivy admissions officers are used to admitting many students with Bs and B+s and GPAs in the 3.5-3.7 range. [/quote]

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