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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids all sound NII great. Those GPAs at a Big 3 are incredible and you should all be proud![/quote]

Here’s the issue with Big3 GPAs even 3.8+ … they don’t seem high when you have public school kids getting up to 4.5 — in fact, they seem low especially at the larger state magnets (Berkeley / UCLA / Michigan / UVA / Texas) where it’s impossible not be just a number. The Big3s will tell you that all the admissions teams at the colleges know how rigorous they are and what their grade ranges are but guess what: they really don’t — it’s impossible when reviewing hundreds or thousands of apps that ultimately start looking the same to keep that in mind even if you heard it once or twice in passing.

Parents of Big3 kids need to internalize this, keep it in mind, and move on … [/quote]

This year, every Big 3 is sending students to UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, and UVA (who the hell wants to go to UT from DC?!?).

None of these students have above a 4.0 because there are no APs/weighted grades at the Big 3 schools. What lie are you going to tell next?[/quote]

But at our Big 3, the kids going to these schools are all hooked (in the case of UVA I'm adding in-state to hooked) - unhooked kids are not going to these schools.[/quote]

At my Big 3, NONE of the admitted students who are attending in the fall are “hooked.”

Btw, UC schools are not permitted to consider legacy/donor status in admissions.  
We also know that race cannot be considered at the UCs, and [b]no DC Metro student lives in-state for California[/b] or Michigan schools. Finally, at my Big 3, none of the students attending the aforementioned schools are recruited athletes.

It may be hard for some of you to grasp, but Cal, UCLA, Michigan and UVA continue to admit Big 3 students who are completely unhooked. It’s ok…you will deal.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/current-issues/admissions#:~:text=Per%20long%2Destablished%20UC%20Regents,children%20of%20alumni%20or%20donors.[/quote]

Actually, I know more than one big3 student graduating in the last few years that applied and attends top UC schools as in state students. Parents are divorced and one parent is a full time resident of California. [/quote]

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