Kids who bombed the SAT - getting good college results

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Anonymous wrote:4 years of high grades in hard classes are more impressive than prepping for a 4 hour test that you can take multiple times and submit your top scores. Most schools are going to be moving away form standardized tests sooner than later.

We are discussing 4 years of inflated grades and bombed SAT scores even after prep, compared to 4 years of the hardest classes at really hard schools with deflated grades and top SAT scores in one sitting without prep. That is what OP is commenting on. She isn't dissing your 4.0 student who actually works hard and had teachers who are difficult graders on actual substance.

SAT scores are highly correlated with family income.

Rich on average have higher IQs, you don't say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Getting into college is not the same thing as staying in college much less graduating. Unless the colleges are really dumbing down the material I’m not seeing the woefully unqualified lasting very long.

Grade inflation is real but thinking that a kid with a 4.0 is going to fail out of college because they're coming from a big public high school is a stretch.

They probably won't fail out but they will have to major in something easy and far less marketable, at best they will have a lower A or B GPA instead of a tippy top Latin honors GPA. They are shunned from the smart kid study groups. Employers will be able to tease out they're below par.

I've seen it for 20 years. The "all A's" over-confident arrogant public school kids tell everyone he or she's going to become a surgeon or engineer. By the end of first semester pre-med or engineering ---> sociology or political science.

Like the political reporter gal who was fired from Teen Vogue because of her racist tweets. Public schooler with inflated grades who thought she was going to become a doctor. Ends up at the intense University of Chicago and immediately realizes how under-prepared she was for pre-med, so she lashed out at studious Asian classmates on social media. She ended up majoring politician science, I believe.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/18/teen-vogue-editor-resigns-alexi-mccammond-tweets

https://nypost.com/2021/02/09/axios-reporter-reveals-relationship-with-white-house-aide/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting into college is not the same thing as staying in college much less graduating. Unless the colleges are really dumbing down the material I’m not seeing the woefully unqualified lasting very long.

Grade inflation is real but thinking that a kid with a 4.0 is going to fail out of college because they're coming from a big public high school is a stretch.

They probably won't fail out but they will have to major in something easy and far less marketable, at best they will have a lower A or B GPA instead of a tippy top Latin honors GPA. They are shunned from the smart kid study groups. Employers will be able to tease out they're below par.

I've seen it for 20 years. The "all A's" over-confident arrogant public school kids tell everyone he or she's going to become a surgeon or engineer. By the end of first semester pre-med or engineering ---> sociology or political science.

Your language is bizarre and you comment in every thread using words like “peers,” “shunned,” “crass,” and “dullard.”

English is my second language but I don't think I have ever used the words you attach to me. So you are mistaken and sound of unstable mind.

Search ''inflated,'' ''dullard,'' ''peers,'' ''gimmick'' etc in this subforum and the same style of post comes up over and over in bolded.

[Anonymous]

Not only do I think public schoolers should be prioritized for college admission, but I am also one of those fringe folks who think private schools should be, well, abolished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you could possibly have strong evidence that this is actually happening yet (tic toc is not strong evidence, btw). However, if the grade inflated kids fail out, your kid can transfer in Sophomore year and take those spots.

Big schools like UMDCP already count on this happening and that’s why they have the college connection.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of generalizing, look at the individual students one by one.

p.s. My kid EARNED A's at a large public, AP scores of 5, and great College Board scores. YMMV.

Then in your case, your kid likely did not get an 1100 on the SAT. If a kid gets an 1100, why should a school not see that important data point too?

That data point for my kid would mean that I don’t have the $$$$ for a SAT tutor. Kids are going up hundreds of points from Khan Academy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Getting into college is not the same thing as staying in college much less graduating. Unless the colleges are really dumbing down the material I’m not seeing the woefully unqualified lasting very long.

Grade inflation is real but thinking that a kid with a 4.0 is going to fail out of college because they're coming from a big public high school is a stretch.

They probably won't fail out but they will have to major in something easy and far less marketable, at best they will have a lower A or B GPA instead of a tippy top Latin honors GPA. They are shunned from the smart kid study groups. Employers will be able to tease out they're below par.

I've seen it for 20 years. The "all A's" over-confident arrogant public school kids tell everyone he or she's going to become a surgeon or engineer. By the end of first semester pre-med or engineering ---> sociology or political science.

Your language is bizarre and you comment in every thread using words like “peers,” “shunned,” “crass,” and “dullard.”

English is my second language but I don't think I have ever used the words you attach to me. So you are mistaken and sound of unstable mind.

Search ''inflated,'' ''dullard,'' ''peers,'' ''gimmick'' etc in this subforum and the same style of post comes up over and over in bolded.

Oy vey. Turn off the computer, go outside and touch grass.