Posted on 04/03/2023 4:54:36 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Grades don’t mean much. Even 25 years ago grades had been inflated so much they were nearly worthless. The College Board (runs the SAT) put out an article about how the average test taker had a B average. It worse now.
As others have said 1100 isn’t impressive and she wanted a STEM major, what was her math score? Top programs get students who have an extensive math background before freshman year.
The world needs ditchdiggers too.
Well the SAT score with the perfect curve graded GPA should get her into a lot of colleges, just not any elite colleges.
I was a professor at several universities throught my career.
At the public universities there were students that were American born that could not write a simple coherent sentence. I bent over backward to help students who were trying to succeed. Some never should have been in college, but I respected their determination.
My policy was that if you don’t attend class, don’t come to my office for help.
I got reprimanded for failing some minority students. There was pressure to push them through, especially if they eere athletes.
My respect for Joe Paterno comes not from his football coaching success, but his focus on helping his team learn, achieve academic success, and graduate. Yes, I taught at Penn State main campus for many years.
And of the ones who talked about programming as a hobby since before they were old enough to drive, 100% of them were white males.
Mine was 1310 in 1972( got mail from 63 colleges). Domineering father roadblocked every way possible. Ridiculed score as your big frog in little pond.Ignored fact of national ranking.Ghetto kids aren’t only ones held back by bad parenting.
“she was shocked to receive more rejections in the mail than she hadn’t been anticipating.”
Um...huh?
I don’t know if that’s a double negative, but it is one too many for real.
She seems like an average student. Not too impressive.
Obviously she seem to feel she is better then she really is.
Common problem with today’s kids!
After the state I taught in passed a law requiring one additional Science class the system went to bleep.
They only had two choices, Physics and Chemistry. None of the less-motivated students wanted to take Physics so they chose Chemistry.
You can imagine what happened to the Chemistry curriculum - went from Stoichiometry to S'mores.
Physics was just sort of abandoned to Dungeons and Dragon classes.
Sigh...
Jokes on her...
I scored 1400, 760/640 in the 70s - and I knew I wasn’t College material.
I hated school.
Made the “almost Military” easy though...
Some folks just don't like apostrophes.
Beware of anti-hyphenism too.
Please, they haven’t had the 4.0 max in decades.
Honors classes etc get you more than 4 if you get an A... no high academic student graduates with just a 4.0 anymore, haven’t for at least 20+ years now.
Hell, when I was a kid anything under 70 was an F... 7 point ranges per grade if memory serves... Today its 10 point ranges.
So you can still pass if you are only right 60% of the time, its insane.. public education as a whole is an abject failure.
NOt sure what the standard was in the 70s.
SAT perfect score in the 80s was 1600. 800 for each side.
Anything over 1000 was pretty much a given to get into college, even some out of the way schools would give you free rides if you managed 1000 and were willing to go to school in the middle of nowhere (wyoming, dakotas etc).
Sometime later they added an essay or something as well so I think the max score is now 2400 (but I could be wrong)
I knew one guy in our high school who pulled off 1560 and a 1540... took it twice... once of the smartest guys I knew... got a free ride to a great college... fell into the drug/party crowd once in school and was kicked out of school in less than a year.
In high school I carpooled with a kid. He ended up being valedictorian with a perfect 4.0.
His old man was an absolute jerk. When report cards were issued, he’d yell at his kid for all A’s.
It was sad to watch.
Black is not automatically accepted. has to be a problem
“McDonalds is hiring.”
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Exshually . . .
McDonalds is shutting corporate and readying to announce layoffs. Don’t be surprised if reopening involves lots of AI hires.
No. I know several black young women who have not gone to the schools of their choice.
4.1 probably means several Bs, as an A in an AP class is probably 4.5. She doesn’t mention AP exam scores, which were probably bad also. Not submitting SATs to test optional schools is not going to help too much, as they will assume the worst.
I would want to know what her scores were on the Calculus AP exams, as well as the Physics and Chemistry AP exams. If she got “4” or “5” on these, then she can do STEM work.
If she got “2” or “3” on these, then just no.
Sounds terrible. I hope you showed up your dad. I suspect it was jealousy. Weird I know - how can you be jealous of your children? But it happens.
SATs were tougher then. My girl got @1450 and a flood of college mail, as you did. (I didn’t go to college in this country and never took the SAT). My boy got 1420 (32 ACT) but not quite that flood of mail. Go figure.
1310 these days will get you into UC but not into STEM, and not into UC Berkeley or UCLA.
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