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Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn
This is sad. Where was her guidance counselor? And why didn't he/she point this out to her parents? If it were my child, she would be taking a very light load of classes her senior year and would take some college level classes at the same time, if it meant she would get a free ride to college-though with her GPA, she probably is getting a scholarship and this is just because it's not fair. They should change the terminology to number of credits/classes taken, versus years for in the future.
And how exactly do you get a 5.898? What's the scale?
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It is the parents' and child's responsibility to read the handbook that explains policy and procedures. It is not up to the counselor to handhold every family and explain every policy in the book. However, if the family HAD read the policies and asked for an explanation the coundelor would have had to elaborate or get the parents some POCs of higher-ups in the school system.
We had to learn this the hard way regarding our oldest. Our child went to the same hs for 9th, 10th, 12th and the first 1/2 of 11th. The second 1/2 of 11th, she was serving on the Hill and went to the US House of Reps Page School in the LoC. She had 3 APs at her base hs during her 1st semester of 11th grade and continued the courses at the highest level that the Page school offered. The highest level was called Honors and not AP. She also took the corresponding AP exams in May and scored 5s on all 3. Our school system would not grant her AP weighted averages for these 3 classes despite the fact that she had scored a perfect score on the exams AND the fact that she had started the coursework in our school system. So she only got 4.0s for those 3 classes instead of 4.5s . Our school system doesn't grade-weight Honors classes, only AP/IB.
If she has maxed out the AP offerings at her high school where apparently an A gets you 6 points, an A in a regular class is just going to lower her GPA.
I'm not familiar with TX public unis so I don't know if they give merit-based schols to instaters. I have heard that only the top 10% of TX high schoolers are admitted to UT Austin. So if you are in the 11th percentile at Great High School and you have stellar SATs and ECs, you still may be denied admission to give a spot to the 5th percentile kids from Bad High School with lousy SATs and ECs. Perhaps Srmom can elaborate
I live in VA and neither UVA nor W&M have merit-based scholarships for instaters. There are Monroe Scholars but unfortunately there is no money attached to the honor. Jefferson Scholars is a UVa program to attract OOSers to Charlottesville. W&M has corresponding programs.
Ironically, my dad had sent me a copy of this article a couple of days ago. Many decades ago my father graduated from a competitive Boston-suburb public high school in 3 years and headed off to MIT at the ripe old age of 16. He also didn't speak English until he came to the USA when he was 8 so he had some catchup to do. He was not allowed to be valedictorian despite his GPA being the best of the class ahead of him. The lack of val status didn't phase him in the long run and certainly didn't affect his career in any way. However, the fact that he actually sent me the link indicates to me that some twinge may have resurfaced.
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