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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will not matter how rigourous your child's curriculum is, nor how stellar their ECs, how brilliantly written their essays or how high their SATs or ACTs.  What will matter most is their GPA. And it won't matter whether, as the schools will tell you, whether that GPA has been on an upward trajectory or whether their is a solid explanation why you worked hard for that 3.7 GPA vs. someone with that 4.3.  Looking at the stats of the schools that rejected my DD, she was easily above their average SAT/ACT scores, but below the apparently weighted GPAs of most of those accepted.  [/quote]

pull in a B from middle school algrebra or foreign language and your GPA is screwed.

but as others will say, you need to compete now, we import millions of people that are competing now for US college spots.   too bad suckers.[/quote]

I've never seen a middle school grade show up on high school transcript. Usually just get the credit applied.[/quote]

In FCPS, HS classes taken in MS contributed to the GPA, unless the parent's expunge the grade.  In math is it possible to expunge the grade and continue to take the next math class, because students take enough math classes in HS to graduate from HS.  It is harder in a language, because the student will still need three years of one language or 2 year of two languges to graduate with the Advanced diploma- and that may mean having to take an even harder year of a language and have it count.  [/quote]

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