GPA Significance in Top High School

happy1
Sun, 20 May 2018 16:39:47 +0000

If you are at one of the top high schools then your guidance counselor will be able to provide the best possible advice on this – when the time comes, he/she will know the range of colleges where people with your academic background typically get into. Right now with just one year of a GPA and no standardized testing it is too early to think about it.

It is good to take school seriously and know that college will be on your horizon, but I would highly recommend that you get off of CC until your junior year.

Over the next year you should focus on:
–Working hard, learning, and doing as well as you can in the most challenging curriculum you can manage.
–When the time comes study for standardized tests.
–Continue your involvement in activities you care about and work towards making meaningful contributions to those activities.
–Enjoying spending time with your family and friends.

My general feeling is that kids end up at the right fit of a college regardless of the HS. For example, I went to a pretty pedestrian HS and maybe 5 - 8 kids (2% or so) got into the top colleges each year. My kids went to a much higher level/higher pressure HS and I’d guess about 30% or so go to Ivy and equivalent colleges. My kids and I all ended up at very appropriate schools. I think if my kids had attended my old HS they would have been more of a top student compared to others in their HS class but they likely would have ended up at a similar place once not only GPA but the HS itself, standardized test scores etc. were taken into account.

My advice is to do your best and things will likely fall out as they should.