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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't it be nice if counselors asked your child where they want to go in 9th grade and helped them get there?  So frustrating that they get to senior year and they are like oh sorry, you didn't take a foreign language senior year so it's not an option for you. [/quote]

Many schools tell the students and parents in 9th grade and again in 10th to pay attention to what schools want, and specifically recommend taking all 5 core areas every year especially if they want UVA and better. On top of that they encourage the best students to take the hardest level of each, and encourage students who are bright but not top to  “right size” the rigor. We have experience going through a test-in public magnet and a private school. The top kids were steered correctly at both. There were some middle of the pack kids not pushed whose parents were surprised Uva was off the table end of junior year. They were not paying attention to the trajectory their kid was on, and did not understand the level of rigor that was “above average”(5-6 APs with DE too, not maxed in all core subjects) versus top (10-12 no DE other than vector calc). The key is to know the kod you have and understand where they are in the context of the school. [/quote]

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