Yeah I get that. It’s just that my parents have always had very high expectations of me, especially when it comes to school performance and academics, and they spent a lot of money and their own time to send me to a very competitive private school. At this school especially, my GPA is not in the top percentiles (even though there is no class rank or percentiles reported to colleges) and it gets very competitive, and my college counselor basically said the same thing. He said its a “competitive GPA", but top schools would ideally like to see straight As, especially from my school.