Comments on: College Admission is Getting Less Competitive?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:47:17 +0000

Thanks, Travis. I’ve recognized the spam, too, and have deleted the links and complained to the owners of the company. They were contrite, but I’m still steamed.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:22:36 +0000

Emilee (and sometimes ashlee) is spamming Acceptedge all over the place. Search Google to see what I mean. I’m spamming back with collegeconfidential.com , mychances.net , collegedata.com , and unigo.com . There, now you have more options to choose from, folks!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:05:14 +0000

I completely agree! Thanks for your comments!

Katherine

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:48 +0000

Hello,

Thank you for your question. You can consider an IB diploma as the equivalent to a full AP level curriculum. Colleges will consider you in a very competitive curriculum. As far as grading goes, every college will do it differently, but most will view an IB grade of a 7 or 6 as an A, a 5 as a B, 4 or 3 as a C, 2 as a D and 1 as an F. You can loosely calculate your GPA based on that scale.

Good luck!

Katherine Price
Educational Consultant

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:32:14 +0000

Even if the acceptance rate at four- year colleges is down it does not mean that the competition is any less grueling.It is a jungle in there and you still have to be at the top of your game to be accepted. Do not let the averages fool you. You still have to excell to get in to the college of your choice.

By: Mirto

Mirto — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:58:56 +0000

i’m a senor student on the IB diploma program. What this means for the U.S. College admission process ? can i consider the IB high level courses I’m taken as equivalent to AP or honors courses ? further how can i convert IB predicted grades to USA grading system like ACT OR GPA?

By: Mirto

Mirto — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:56:05 +0000

i’m a senor student on the IB diploma programme. What this means for the U.S. College admission process ? can i consider the IB high level courses i’m taken as equivalent to AP or honors courses ? further how can i convert IB predicted grades to USA grading system es like ACT OR GPA?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:54:07 +0000

Averages are deceiving. This happens when you call a vocational school a community “college”.

The $/student sounds like nonsense to me. The privates simply have much larger endowments they draw from yearly, while the publics rely on state funds that are not capitalized in a way that enters into the calculation.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:08:33 +0000

Doubt it! I think the truth is that the more “popular” colleges will continue to become more competitive!

Katherine