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re: Competition for College Admissions in Texas is unreal
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:00 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:00 am to SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:02 am to supatigah
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Calculus part of the Math ACT is tough
Did your kids tell you this? The ACT doesn't test calculus.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:04 am to rockchlkjayhku11
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our son took 15 AP classes and only had 33 hours of credit at UTD? How many did he fail, shite
He didn't take the AP credit test for all of them and he got 4 or 5 in most of the ones he took - he now has 33 hours that applied to his Major - Business Management
These arent tests you fail, you either get the requisite points for college credit or you dont. Some of the AP courses he took he got a 3, some a 4, some a 5. After he was finished he accumulated 33 hours that were eligible for his degree total at UT-D Business School
His 3 score results might have been good enough for partial credit at Community College or the lower level 4 year schools.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:04 am to supatigah
Texas is one big dog and pony show.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:04 am to lnomm34
doing trig without a calculator after taking trig a year earlier isn't exactly bragging, especially given the group at issue (alleged engineering students)
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:05 am to WildManGoose
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Did your kids tell you this? The ACT doesn't test calculus.
I assumed he meant AP calculus.
Not sure but the many moons ago when I took the ACT, it went up to Trig. So you really just had to memorize the trig circle and you were bueno.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:06 am to supatigah
Top 7% of what? In their school? In the state? What?
I know UT Austin is very hard to get into. A lot of out of state applicants as well.
I know UT Austin is very hard to get into. A lot of out of state applicants as well.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:07 am to supatigah
quote:It's amazing how smart all those Texas and Texas A&M football players must be to get accepted.....
Just found out my daughter didn’t get into Texas or Texas A&M.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:07 am to Big Chipper
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Something doesn't sound right. The valedictorian only had a 4.69? My son took 10 APs and a ton of honors classes and had a 5.2 GPA. Do APs count for 5 or 6? Here in NC, standard classes are 4 pts, Honors are 5 pts and AP are 6 pts.
AP courses are 5.0, regular curriculum is 4.0
There are AP courses available online. Based on the available AP courses in KISD, either in person or online, 4.69 is the highest possible GPA one can achieve
There are numerous stories of kids dropping out of Music or ART to avoid the 4.0 level Art Class on their transcript. If there was AP Art or AP Music this wouldnt happen
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:07 am to supatigah
quote:thats why AP might not be the best route for kids. say you are in the top 20 of the AP classes, Like you see there are plent of kids in the enriched classes making better grades than most of the AP class members. So GPA wise your kids drops from top 20 to top 100.
Because of the AP courses the kids take there were >100 kids above 4.0 in his class
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:09 am to Pavoloco83
quote:has this changed? i know a bunch of dumbfricks from LA who got into UT, in the early 2000s
I know UT Austin is very hard to get into. A lot of out of state applicants as well.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:11 am to Collegedropout
quote:La schools too. My daughter graduated 7 of like 350. She couldnt have made a B unless she punched a teacher in the mouth.
Grade inflation is big in Texas schools.
If she got close to a B they always offered a path to some extra points, it is like they were scared to give the straight A kids a B.
If was worse in Jr High, but high school was bad. She is an engineering major now and has to work her arse off for her grades. She has made me proud and put in the work.
But grades now a days are shite, she had all those AP classes too, about 3 were accepted for her degree program.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:13 am to TigrrrDad
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The girl is Asian, and the boy is Blasian.
The girl had it hard. The boy should have claimed he was African-American.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:15 am to supatigah
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I love San Marcos
Really considering moving there with mrs supa
New Braunfels is nicer fwiw. i fell asleep and am catching up on the thread
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:19 am to TigrrrDad
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a girl at my son’s school got a 36 on the ACT - TWICE -
No she didn’t.
And this is why “it’s so hard to get into X school” threads are pointless. People will always flub the numbers when it comes to their kid’s standardized test scores and GPAs.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:24 am to WildManGoose
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Did your kids tell you this? The ACT doesn't test calculus.
when they took the ACT, they had not yet taken HS calculus. So when they got to some of the questions on the ACT they didn't easily recognize the higher level trig concepts in the questions. So she had to spend extra time trying to work it out and/or guess. Now that she has taken Calculus almost a full year she would probably do better on the portion of the test she didnt immediately recognize but it is too late for all of that
I asked my daughter what her math scores were and she said her highest was a 28. If they had super scored her ACT she would have had a 32
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:24 am to BigB0882
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I'm sorry but if 25% of the class has a 3.96 or better GPA then the school is really way too easy. That's ridiculous to have so many kids with such a GPA.
there are a lot of people in this thread looking at this wrong
the school, the courses are not easy, there is a percentage of people that have figured out how to game the system. The kids are still doing the work, they are still learning the material. It is the class rankings system that is heavily flawed.
My son did Debate, my daughter was a cheerleader and in theatre. My son told me there routinely was an influx of Freshmen and Sophomores that joined Debate but never competed just so they could put debate on their college applications. Otherwise they wouldnt have any extra curricular activities at all in HS
None of the top 20 kids in my daughters class are cheerleaders or in theater
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:26 am to supatigah
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If they had super scored her ACT she would have had a 32
What in the hell is a super score?
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:29 am to AbitaFan08
Is it like the Powerball multiplier?
I made a 32 in Math/Science but made a 23 in English, because as everyone knows here I can't form a sentence properly.
That's why I use grammarly!!!
I made a 32 in Math/Science but made a 23 in English, because as everyone knows here I can't form a sentence properly.
That's why I use grammarly!!!
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:31 am to Winston Cup
it sucks that great high schools cant get more kids in UT , AM.
Better off sending your kid to a lesser school be in the top 5-10% and get in to the school of your choice.
Better off sending your kid to a lesser school be in the top 5-10% and get in to the school of your choice.
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