Anonymous wrote:Do colleges care at all whether a student earns an "advanced diploma"? I can already anticipate that we will want to drop my current 8th grader's Latin grades (low Bs) from his transcript, but doubt he will take three more years in high school. Probably just two. Is it worth a GPA boost to forego the "advanced diploma"? The advanced diploma sounds like a made-up thing that has no meaning in real life, but maybe I am wrong...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:College counselor here - I wish APS did a better job of educating families and students about what colleges care about, and this is. not. it.
a) Selective schools are looking at unweighted GPA and b) rigorous courseload. Dropping middle school classes to bring a 4.4 to a 4.5 or whatever is more likely to make a school think something went very wrong in 8th grade.
So much about the grade inflation at APS results from bones administrators have thrown to parents, over the course of decades, who think they're doing their kids a favor by trying to game this out. It truly will not make a positive difference if you drop As from a middle school transcript.
I don’t believe this is true at all schools. You cant tell me that colleges that are getting 25,000+ applications are recalculating everyones grades. They have a cutoff and then more intensely review those over that hurdle.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:College counselor here - I wish APS did a better job of educating families and students about what colleges care about, and this is. not. it.
a) Selective schools are looking at unweighted GPA and b) rigorous courseload. Dropping middle school classes to bring a 4.4 to a 4.5 or whatever is more likely to make a school think something went very wrong in 8th grade.
So much about the grade inflation at APS results from bones administrators have thrown to parents, over the course of decades, who think they're doing their kids a favor by trying to game this out. It truly will not make a positive difference if you drop As from a middle school transcript.
I don’t believe this is true at all schools. You cant tell me that colleges that are getting 25,000+ applications are recalculating everyones grades. They have a cutoff and then more intensely review those over that hurdle.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The only HS options in MS are math and world language. You need 4 math credits and 3 WL credits for an advanced diploma. Since we knew our child would have this easily from HS alone, we dropped all MS grades, including the A+ ones. Mathematically this is advantageous.
No, there is also world geography, which kids take in 8th grade by default but counts as a HS credit.
Anyone caring enough to drop middle school A's is going to have a kid taking history all 4 years. Its a non-issue as far as the advanced diploma goes to drop MS classes.
Anonymous wrote:The only HS options in MS are math and world language. You need 4 math credits and 3 WL credits for an advanced diploma. Since we knew our child would have this easily from HS alone, we dropped all MS grades, including the A+ ones. Mathematically this is advantageous.
Anonymous wrote:The only HS options in MS are math and world language. You need 4 math credits and 3 WL credits for an advanced diploma. Since we knew our child would have this easily from HS alone, we dropped all MS grades, including the A+ ones. Mathematically this is advantageous.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The only HS options in MS are math and world language. You need 4 math credits and 3 WL credits for an advanced diploma. Since we knew our child would have this easily from HS alone, we dropped all MS grades, including the A+ ones. Mathematically this is advantageous.
No, there is also world geography, which kids take in 8th grade by default but counts as a HS credit.