40% straight A's in High school

jmmom
Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:32:04 +0000

momof3teens - 7/125 is nothing to sniff at either. If your school doesn’t have an “effective” profile sheet to submit (and doesn’t develop one in time for your S’ apps) you can try to make sure the GC describes the challenge level of his coursework vs. others with higher “rank”.

Or - and check with others on this board to make sure this is a good idea - perhaps your S can find a way in a short essay (not his main essay) to mention that he has chosen to take most challenging courseload despite knowing that it will cost him the val/high rank among classmates. The common app has a “catch all” section for additional info and he ought to be able to fashion a well-worded statement covering this issue, if need be.