Should Son With Low GPA Leave Rigorous High School?

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<p>Question: My son currently attends a very pricey and academically rigorous private school. He will be a junior in the fall and for the last two years his grade point average has not been higher than a 2.0. I have been very tempted to move him to another school that is less challenging. The problem […]</p>

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<p>Getting lower than 2.0 in the high school is prob not the difficulty lvl of the school, it’s more like yr son’s issue. If he is determined and working work, he will not get that low of GPA in any of the school in the US</p>

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<p>2.0 at any school is quite bad. It means you are barely above water trying not to flunk out.</p>

<p>I am curious to know how the pricey school justifies having students with such low GPAs without ensuring they are doing better in school.</p>

<p>I am even more curious about where the 2.0 students get in from such a pricey school.</p>

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<p>If this school is so rigorous, do they not weight their grades?</p>

<p>Technically my school doesn’t give out GPAs for the sole reason that most students would be so low due to the rigor of the program. But for purposes of scholarships/college admittance, the counselors will calculate a weighted GPA.</p>

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<p>Personally, having had 3 kids in 4 different rigorous private schools, I can only comment that the ops school cant be all that rigorous. Most rigorous K-12 schools get rid of their low performing students between 7-9 grades, and the rigorous boarding schools or the K-12s that have an influx of kids for HS don’t accept kids whose average is that low. Pricey does not mean rigorous.</p>

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<p>Well if other kids are beating him in gpa, your son may not be trying hard enough. Just cause it is “rigorous” doesn’t mean its insurmountable. I go to one of the most competitive high schools in the nation and still managed to get rank 100/1544 and a gpa of 4.18. That’d cause I worked my butt off. Sure it is very hard, but never run away from the problem. </p>

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