Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out Colleges that Change Lives. It's a book about overpriced second tier colleges for B students for parents who wish their kids could get into top schools but can't. DCUM families drool over the book . . .

OP, instead of believing this nasty post, I suggest you search for other threads on DCUM about CTCL. No need to rehash here what has already been discussed ad nauseum by proponents and opponents of those colleges and the types of students who actually attend them

OP, CTCL schools give very generous merit aid. Get him to study for the SATs. It pays dividends.

OP, CTCL schools are second tier and half their students don't graduate. They're a total scam. Send your kid to a solid Catholic college -- Jesuit if you can -- and they'll actually graduate with a marketable degree and do well. Don't waste your time on second tier liberal arts colleges.

Why is CTCL a trigger word for someone in this forum? Many people have had good experiences there, and have a right to share that. It’s not marketing , it is the purpose of this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:If it has as a 3 in front of it, it is a B (albeit a high B).

Breathe, your kid is smart and will do fine, if you stop treating this like a competition

That is not correct. A 4.0 is an A. A kid with all A- will be in the 3’s but is not a B student. Maybe at your 5.0 grade inflation school a 3.9 is a B student, but not at a normal school.

No, in MCPS, there are no pluses or minuses...so 3.9 is (horrors) a B

If a school grades on a 4.0 scale with no honors or AP bump, a student with a 3.9 is not a "B student." The student would have to have gotten a vast majority of As. Basically you're saying if a student gets all As and only one B in high school, that student is a "B student." When your average person asked where your "B student" went to school, they aren't talking about a student with an unweighted 3.9, which you rightly pointed out, isn't a perfect A average.

McDaneil is another CTCL school with a low graduation rate.

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Anonymous wrote:There are tons of options as long as you have the $ to pay.

Not really. I’ll need FA. Single parent teacher here.

I'm also a single parent teacher. My kid with a 3.00 unweighted (exactly, he hit that number right on the head), and a little under 3.5 weighted is at McDaniel where he gets a $25,000 a year scholarship for being the son of a teacher.

Our kid has a 3.4 and was offered 31k a year in scholarships. We are not teachers.
The tuition for McDaniel is outrageous but with the scholarship, the price is now the same, and has the lowest student-teacher ration as the other small state schools kid applied to.

I just looked at his transcript from semester 1 and his weighted gpa is 3.7.

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Anonymous wrote:There are tons of options as long as you have the $ to pay.

Not really. I’ll need FA. Single parent teacher here.

Look at your state’s public non-flagships - those will probably be the most cost-effective options.

However, what is your DS’s weighted GPA? He might be a “B student,” but if he’s taken a bunch of honors and AP classes, his weighted GPA could be a lot higher.

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Anonymous wrote:If it has as a 3 in front of it, it is a B (albeit a high B).

Breathe, your kid is smart and will do fine, if you stop treating this like a competition

Where do you get the idea that I am treating this like a competition? I asked people to recommend schools their kids went to and liked.

The comment was made to the person who seemed to be questioning whether 3.9 could somehow be interpreted as an A since THEIR child had taken difficult classes

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OP here. Thanks for this! We live in MD and my cousins loves St. Mary’s. Beautiful campus. My son took honors Latin as a freshman and he ended up with a low C which wrecked his gpa. He switched to Spanish and is doing much better now.

St. Mary’s has a beautiful campus? Really?

At Mary’s College if MD is set on the water. Quite striking, yes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it has as a 3 in front of it, it is a B (albeit a high B).

Breathe, your kid is smart and will do fine, if you stop treating this like a competition

That is not correct. A 4.0 is an A. A kid with all A- will be in the 3’s but is not a B student. Maybe at your 5.0 grade inflation school a 3.9 is a B student, but not at a normal school.

No, in MCPS, there are no pluses or minuses...so 3.9 is (horrors) a B

Anonymous wrote:
OP here. Thanks for this! We live in MD and my cousins loves St. Mary’s. Beautiful campus. My son took honors Latin as a freshman and he ended up with a low C which wrecked his gpa. He switched to Spanish and is doing much better now.

St. Mary’s has a beautiful campus? Really?

Anonymous wrote:If it has as a 3 in front of it, it is a B (albeit a high B).

Breathe, your kid is smart and will do fine, if you stop treating this like a competition

That is not correct. A 4.0 is an A. A kid with all A- will be in the 3’s but is not a B student. Maybe at your 5.0 grade inflation school a 3.9 is a B student, but not at a normal school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out Colleges that Change Lives. It's a book about overpriced second tier colleges for B students for parents who wish their kids could get into top schools but can't. DCUM families drool over the book . . .

OP, instead of believing this nasty post, I suggest you search for other threads on DCUM about CTCL. No need to rehash here what has already been discussed ad nauseum by proponents and opponents of those colleges and the types of students who actually attend them

OP, CTCL schools give very generous merit aid. Get him to study for the SATs. It pays dividends.

OP, CTCL schools are second tier and half their students don't graduate. They're a total scam. Send your kid to a solid Catholic college -- Jesuit if you can -- and they'll actually graduate with a marketable degree and do well. Don't waste your time on second tier liberal arts colleges.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out Colleges that Change Lives. It's a book about overpriced second tier colleges for B students for parents who wish their kids could get into top schools but can't. DCUM families drool over the book . . .

OP, instead of believing this nasty post, I suggest you search for other threads on DCUM about CTCL. No need to rehash here what has already been discussed ad nauseum by proponents and opponents of those colleges and the types of students who actually attend them

OP, CTCL schools give very generous merit aid. Get him to study for the SATs. It pays dividends.

Anonymous wrote:If it has as a 3 in front of it, it is a B (albeit a high B).

Breathe, your kid is smart and will do fine, if you stop treating this like a competition

Where do you get the idea that I am treating this like a competition? I asked people to recommend schools their kids went to and liked.

What is your issue about diversity of thought—it is pathetic