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North of Walburg

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  1. 4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    I have a HS sr and soph.  If college graduations are anything like HS, god help anyone who gets in front of that blonde haired, don't feed after midnight, fucking party-planning gremlin.  Losing her shit is a FT job for her, but also is married to me and my progeny...

    Because of Covid most of this year's graduating class did not have a traditional high school graduation.  So for a lot of folks this one means a lot.

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  2. My kid is a sophomore at UT. I asked his opinion on the EOT debate. So, here’s another point of view from the student’s perspective:

    “I haven’t conducted a survey of UT students so my opinion is probably baseless. But I get the feeling that it’s a small highly motivated group of individuals on a committee, holding power and attention, that are upset. Then, the majority of students either ignorantly following the nonsense put forward or too scared to disagree with “woke culture” don’t want to oppose the change. And the remaining minority of students have no power because this is an issue of mobocracy and the only ones with the power to advocate for keeping the EYES are the pressure from alumni and Hartzell”

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  3. That is in direct contradiction to what I was told by UT admissions, with the only exception being that some decisions are made prior to 1st semester grades coming out, so they have to use the first 6 semesters only.
    That said, college admissions departments aren't exactly consistent with what they tell parents, so it's possible we received bad information.

    This was how it worked last year and the UT Admissions Rep that came to our high school described it the same way. Certainly possible they changed policies in the last year. But most, if not all, auto admin decisions come out in the fall before the high school semester has ended.

    I don’t know if UT considers senior year grades/activities for major approval or non-auto admin since those determinations may not be made until the spring.

    Our son’s preferred major was in COLA so it was not as competitive.

    One other affect on class ranking that we discovered was early graduates did lower the end of the year junior class numbers. So, the class ranking percentage can drop based on the smaller class.
  4. Our son is a freshman at UT this year and this thread reminds me of all the same questions we had last year. Your class rank is locked in at the end of your junior year in regards to your application. Whatever happens to your rank your senior year has no affect on your admittance. Our kid was barely in top 6% end of junior year and end of senior he dropped a few spots to top 7% despite his GPA going up. Despite that senior drop in rankings he was auto admin.


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