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Anonymous wrote:I wish I waited to apply RD to show my senior grades which are all A’s in 4 AP’s and 1 honor and 1 non honor because they don’t offer any honor option. Like another OP, my child’s private school doesn’t allow AP’s until junior year and really limits honors and AP’s. And only gives a half point bump for both. I never realized it would be a factor. The school is rigorous, but hard to weed out when you have that many applicants.

It absolutely won’t be an issue with college admissions. The thing is is that your child’s regular classes are very rigorous so it doesn’t matter that your kid hasn’t take 16 AP’s. I guarantee you that the colleges know what kind of education your kid is receiving there.

My kid got into a top 5 University from a private school and she had taken only 5 - 6 AP’s at the most?
And *gasp* she had even gotten a B or two in high school.

Anonymous wrote:I wish I waited to apply RD to show my senior grades which are all A’s in 4 AP’s and 1 honor and 1 non honor because they don’t offer any honor option. Like another OP, my child’s private school doesn’t allow AP’s until junior year and really limits honors and AP’s. And only gives a half point bump for both. I never realized it would be a factor. The school is rigorous, but hard to weed out when you have that many applicants.

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question: doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?

In my DD's school (in Loudoun County), hardly anyone gets As in AP History courses. There are other scattered courses that are difficult to get As in, but AP history is notoriously difficult. So, even many of the top and brightest kids do not get straight As (if they are taking the most rigorous courses). Not sure how it is at other schools or other counties.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, a third generation legacy with a 1560 SAT and a weighted 4.3, science olympiad, 6 IB classes, etc. was deferred.

I hope this is a troll because it would be depressing for DC in RD if not!

If your DC is in an IB school, you know that the number of IB courses isn't the same as getting the full diploma or having HLs in hard subjects. You could have 6 IB courses that are all standard level. That would not be an especially competitive curriculum.

If colleges think like you do, they definitely know little about IB. SL classes can be very rigorous, and at schools where there is no AP but only IB, there is a lot of incentive to ensure those SL courses are tough. They become the "most rigorous classes offered by your high school."

The IB diploma actually does allow three HL and three SL classes to achieve the full diploma.

Not here to start the old AP-IB debate, just noting that IB students not going for the full diploma can and do take both SL and HL courses a la carte just like the way other students take AP courses. I think you haven't seen the difference between IB SL and regular "honors" classes.

I didn't say SL wasn't rigorous, but that 6 SLs wouldn't be competitive at a school like UVA.

The college know the difference between SL and HL.

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that all the movement is in EA apps: 24,950 this year vs. 21, 573 last. RD apps stagnated at 15,854 this year vs. 15,632 last. We'll see if the yield drops with the increase in apps. EA is the better pool and these kids apparently feel they have to apply early to everything these days to have a chance. Wonder if in state EA numbers were up or if most or all of the increase was from out of state.

Students aspiring to highly selective schools apply EA to state flagship schools (whether in-state ot out-of-state) as a safety.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, a third generation legacy with a 1560 SAT and a weighted 4.3, science olympiad, 6 IB classes, etc. was deferred.

I hope this is a troll because it would be depressing for DC in RD if not!

If your DC is in an IB school, you know that the number of IB courses isn't the same as getting the full diploma or having HLs in hard subjects. You could have 6 IB courses that are all standard level. That would not be an especially competitive curriculum.

If colleges think like you do, they definitely know little about IB. SL classes can be very rigorous, and at schools where there is no AP but only IB, there is a lot of incentive to ensure those SL courses are tough. They become the "most rigorous classes offered by your high school."

The IB diploma actually does allow three HL and three SL classes to achieve the full diploma.

Not here to start the old AP-IB debate, just noting that IB students not going for the full diploma can and do take both SL and HL courses a la carte just like the way other students take AP courses. I think you haven't seen the difference between IB SL and regular "honors" classes.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that all the movement is in EA apps: 24,950 this year vs. 21, 573 last. RD apps stagnated at 15,854 this year vs. 15,632 last. We'll see if the yield drops with the increase in apps. EA is the better pool and these kids apparently feel they have to apply early to everything these days to have a chance. Wonder if in state EA numbers were up or if most or all of the increase was from out of state.

Anonymous wrote:Man when I was applying to college a 3.6 (I don't think we had this unweighted/weighted business back then) and anything over a 1350 on the SAT would give you a chance of getting in. Now I feel old and am terrified for potential kids!