Help! College issues with Ivy league son

theloniusmonk
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:16:38 +0000

“Using the number of APs as evidence of college preparedness is, IMO, unwarranted.”

Adcoms are human so of course they’re going to make mistakes, a lot of them, if doctors who are the most trained professionals in the world make the right decision 7-8 out of 10 times, adcoms are probably going to get 6 or 7 right out of the ten they see. That being said, if adcoms know that APs have a good (if not excellent) correlation with freshman year success, it’s not unreasonable to use that metric.

“And when one FINALLY gets to start taking the courses they came to college to attend, it’s easy to slip into that mindset. At last! Courses in my major! Let me dive in! It’s hard, but it’s FUN!”

I think the classes in the major are what’s causing the issue, not the gen ed ones, which is why Penn may not be a fit, and there’s nothing wrong with that, sometimes a fit is not a fit.