Normal people?
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Anonymous
| Why does everyone on this board seem to have a child with a near perfect SAT score and a 4.0 GPA? Where are the normal kids? The kids who are not cutthroat or taking 6 APs a year? I can’t believe so many kids have perfect SaT scores. Anyone “ normal” out there??? |
Anonymous
| Not a representative sample. |
Anonymous
| And there is exaggeration mixed with aspirations. |
Anonymous
| PS my normal kid had a 2.5 gpa and 1310 sat and got into his first choice. He’s doing great!! It’s all relative. |
Anonymous
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People like to brag. The more people brag, the more people with "normal" kids don't speak up because they're comparing their kids.
The normal kids are out there, wandering around being perfectly happy and a lot less stressed than the impressive kids. |
Anonymous
+1. I have a normal kid. She’s enjoying high school and doing an admirable job, but she’s not in any 99th percentile. She’ll be fine. She’ll get into a good college and she’ll pick a discipline that interests her. Don’t compare yourself to DCUM. What you read here isn’t a good sample of the population. |
Anonymous
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BTW, I have two cousins within one grade of each other. One went to Cornell and one went to SUNY Fredonia. Both became elementary school teachers. I doubt Cormell is earning significantly more than Fredonia.
Another two of my cousins: one went to Brown, and one went to Worcester State U. Brown became a yoga teacher part time. Worcester went to grad school and now is a speech pathologist. An impressive-sounding school doesn't always lead to an impressive career. |
Anonymous
| There has been a lot of grade inflation in recent years. Some entire districts (DCPS for one) did not give a single grade lower than a B for 18 months. |
Anonymous
6 APS? Normal at our school is 11+ |
Anonymous
| Anonymous board = lying |
Anonymous
And? You are exactly the type people find distasteful on this board! |
Anonymous
A 4.0 GPA isn’t that difficult to achieve given grade inflation across America. 6 AP’s isn’t that difficult either. I think I did that many in the 90s. The norm these days is 7-12+ for high achieving kids The near perfect SAT IS impressive and something to celebrate. The last two pages of college thread inquire about or mention many lower ranked colleges, some I honestly have never heard of, so there seem to be plenty on this board who are in the range of ‘normal’ that you speak OP. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
I think there are a few tippity tip top of the top kids, some whose parents made a few mil donation, but one or two others very, very deserving of their success/es - people in the DMV don’t always like to give credit where it’s due. |
Anonymous
It also isn’t “normal” to take 11+ APs. Sure, some students do that. Most do not. (Source: I’m a high school teacher.) |