<p>All good points, I agree, and obviously there is more than academics taken into consideration by the admissions folks. There is a point, however, when confidence and budding accountability must be considered too. As an aside, I found this when he was doing his Eagle Scout project - how much does one as a parent suggest for them to succeed or how much do you let them do and see the consequences of their actions? Before he made this decision (about his third year of Spanish) he looked at the CC discussion threads on the importance of language in the admissions process. I discussed the suggestions above with him and his reaction was he was shooting for plan a – an academy – not for plan b.</p>
<p>But I think the main point here was that we discovered an aspect of the academic portion of the admissions process (60 percent) that others might wish to take into consideration: the double-weighting of math and science courses by at least one of the academies. How a candidate or parent may want to use that information may be different in each case, depending on the strength of all their candidate’s individual characteristics.</p>