9 wk grades for ED 1

interesteddad
Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:09:23 +0000

My wildly speculative guess?

As soon as an application is stamped “accepted”, there is a checklist of clerical paperwork stuff that has to be done and that one of the items on the checklist is to call or write the the high school to request copies of senior year grade reports. Getting those is standard operating procedure for accepted students.

Also, we don’t really know how many “wink, wink: I can’t tell you, but I think it’s looking good” conversations take place between admissions officers and high school guidance counselors. Just because a GC tells a student the college contacted the school to send a grade report doesn’t mean that the GC is relaying the entire conversation.

In other cases, the adcoms may be looking for ammunition to support a candidate or simply confirmation that a student is holding up OK under the heavy senior year AP load.

There are so many possible explanations that I really wouldn’t try to read anything definitive into it.