Don't understand the 2nd guessing.

cobrat
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:31:33 +0000

emeraldkity4:

Both my kids attended rigorous urban schools ( one private one public) neither had weighting, but every year students go on to top colleges because the school profile states the average SATs & grades as well as what schools grads attend.
If the school profile in your area isn’t accurate, how are the colleges supposed to know this?



Actually, most of the respectable and elite LACs/universities are quite familiar with my high school’s profile/reputation. Despite the great reputation, each of their respective admissions officers could only take so many kids from one given high school*. Moreover, once you go into the low C and D ranges…one’s still shut out because low Cs and Ds are still horrid grades…even if those students would probably have been at least top 1/3 at a more average high school rather graduating in the bottom quarter.

However, because of the high school’s rep and the combination of intellect and rigorous preparation…transferring up is quite doable and many kids in prior graduating classes and my own availed themselves of this opportunity after 1 or 2 years and ended up having the college experience they would not have had if they had remained at the lower-tiered schools they initially started out at after high school graduation.


In my graduating class, Cornell A & S/Engineering admitted around 1/6 of my graduating class of around 700.