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<p>Hi texaspg, Son challenged himself in the URM middle school by taking 4.5 high school courses (9 semester courses) that were Pass/ Fail at the old district high school. However, the competitive suburban school decided these should be weighted on the 4.0 scale. So, by the time he gets done with taking all the required Fine Arts, speech, career, PE and other academic requirements on top of the 9 middle school courses with straight As there are not enough As in the remaining honors courses to raise his GPA above ~4.4, which is just below the 10% cut off. Essentially, the school had decided the day he enrolled on the first day of freshman year that he would not qualify for auto admit to any Texas State college.</p>