If everyone indeed has a 3.9 or better, there's a problem.

Anonymous
[quote=Anonymous]Over a 100 people have already viewed this in just the past 40 minutes since it was posted. Lots of threads here have thousands of comments and eyeballs on them.

"You mean if everyone on this tiny forum, in this tiny subsection of the country, who contribute to the few threads applicable, claim their kid has a 3.9 we have a problem?!! That’s like 100 people max."

Slow Saturday night
Anonymous
In mcps, each high school has a school profile that you can access and it shows weighted grade distribution among graduating seniors. Last year I checked ours (Churchill) and was shocked at how many students have over 4.5 - I want to say over 1/4 of the grade. So, most of them probably have 4.0 or close to it unweighted.
Anonymous
When everybody is special, no one is.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:"Maybe because you don't read every post?"

Seriously, show the posts saying this. There must be 20 posts by parents of kids with impeccable numbers for every post about a kid with a GPA between 3.0 and a 3.5.


1) People don’t brag about being average

2) Parents with high stat kids are desperate, because they aspire to elite schools and want to know every angle.

Other parents know that ship has sailed. You don’t need a lot of advice in getting into the majority of America’s colleges.
Anonymous
Yeah, it's absurd. Our DC has over 3.9 unweighted (all As except three A- (one of which was 8th grade, which apparently counts because it was geometry)...they will have over 10 APs by they time they graduate...but are *barely* in the top 15 percent for their class (large public school).

The grade inflation is real.
Anonymous
Who cares.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it's absurd. Our DC has over 3.9 unweighted (all As except three A- (one of which was 8th grade, which apparently counts because it was geometry)...they will have over 10 APs by they time they graduate...but are *barely* in the top 15 percent for their class (large public school).

The grade inflation is real.


What school?
Anonymous
My kid (hs) did not and now in college just might (grade inflation IS real)
Anonymous
the posters on college confidential are self selecting and will therefore be one the higher end of things.

neither of my kids had a 3.9 unweighted.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:"Maybe because you don't read every post?"

Seriously, show the posts saying this. There must be 20 posts by parents of kids with impeccable numbers for every post about a kid with a GPA between 3.0 and a 3.5.


This was posted a day ago:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1011232.page
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Maybe because you don't read every post?"

Seriously, show the posts saying this. There must be 20 posts by parents of kids with impeccable numbers for every post about a kid with a GPA between 3.0 and a 3.5.


This was posted a day ago:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1011232.page


Here was another one: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1004217.page
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Maybe because you don't read every post?"

Seriously, show the posts saying this. There must be 20 posts by parents of kids with impeccable numbers for every post about a kid with a GPA between 3.0 and a 3.5.


This was posted a day ago:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1011232.page


Here was another one: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1004217.page


Guess OP missed this one, too: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1001458.page
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Maybe because you don't read every post?"

Seriously, show the posts saying this. There must be 20 posts by parents of kids with impeccable numbers for every post about a kid with a GPA between 3.0 and a 3.5.


This was posted a day ago:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1011232.page


Here was another one: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1004217.page


Guess OP missed this one, too: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1001458.page


And this one! https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/992520.page
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Maybe because you don't read every post?"

Seriously, show the posts saying this. There must be 20 posts by parents of kids with impeccable numbers for every post about a kid with a GPA between 3.0 and a 3.5.


This was posted a day ago:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1011232.page


Here was another one: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1004217.page


Guess OP missed this one, too: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1001458.page


And this one! https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/992520.page


How about this? https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/995986.page
Anonymous
"In mcps, each high school has a school profile that you can access and it shows weighted grade distribution among graduating seniors. Last year I checked ours (Churchill) and was shocked at how many students have over 4.5 - I want to say over 1/4 of the grade. So, most of them probably have 4.0 or close to it unweighted."

Could you please share the link to this info?
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