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FactorName Rigor
FactorDescription A challenging high school curriculum. Academically successful students should take at least five core courses every semester. Include AP, IB, and Honors if you can get good grades in them. Most colleges recalculate GPA based only on core subjects (English, math, science, social science, foreign language, programming).
StudentsStudentFactorTop Allen Cheng
StudentsStudentFactorGood
StudentsStudentFactorUpper
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VeryImportantForColleges Princeton University Yale University University of Pennsylvania Stanford University Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University Duke University Dartmouth College California Institute of Technology Brown University University of Notre Dame Vanderbilt University Cornell University Rice University Washington University in St Louis University of California-Los Angeles Emory University University of California-Berkeley University of Southern California Georgetown University Carnegie Mellon University University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Virginia-Main Campus Tufts University Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus New York University University of California-Irvine University of California-San Diego University of California-Davis Boston University Northeastern University University of California-Santa Cruz University of Oregon Amherst College Swarthmore College Barnard College
ImportantForColleges Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California-Santa Barbara University of California-Riverside
ConsideredForColleges Harvard University
NotConsideredForColleges Albion College