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Higher Grades Challenge College Application Process
Josh Zalasky should be the kind of college applicant with little to worry about. The high school senior is taking three Advanced Placement courses. Outside the classroom, he’s involved in mock trial, two Jewish youth groups and has a job with a restaurant chain. He’s a National Merit semifinalist and scored in the top 3 percent of all students who take the ACT.
But in the increasingly frenzied world of college admissions, even Zalasky is nervous about his prospects. He doubts he’ll get into the University of Wisconsin, a top choice. The reason: his grades.
It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that so many of his classmates are so good. Zalasky’s GPA is nearly an A minus, and yet he ranks only about in the middle of his senior class of 543 at Edina High School outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. That means he will have to find other ways to stand out.
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A. Josh Zalasky should be the kind of college applicant with no more effort.
B. Josh Zalasky should be the kind of college applicant with little effort.
C. Josh Zalasky should be the kind-of college applicant with nothing to worry about.
D. Josh Zalasky should be the kind of college applicant with little to worry about.
