<p>Everyday- I could name you 50 unfair things about college admissions- your justifiable issue being one of them. But the point is, that in the grand scheme of things, it’s probably not worth the energy or time to try and fix it- especially if the school is being dense about it.</p>
<p>There are teachers who grade with a large component going to “Effort” (or what the teacher perceives as effort) so the kids who are plugging along and doing B work end up with the same grade as the kids who really master the material (but aren’t sucking up and pretending). Is that fair? There are schools whose profiles list AP classes (usually physics and chemistry) that haven’t been offered in 8 years since the AP science teacher retired. So kids applying to engineering schools end up looking like slugs- who applies to CMU or RPI engineering without taking AP chem and physics in a HS which offers them? Or kids who take yearbook as their “arts elective” which counts as much towards the GPA as AP Music or Studio Art.</p>
<p>Let it go. It’s unfair, the GC should include a line in the GC’s letter about it, but at the end of the day, I can’t imagine a scenario where it will really make a difference.</p>