Is B/B+ the average GPA at top privates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:At our local public an A-/A+ student has SAT's of 1800s. My DD was a B+ at her big three and her SAT's were 2200s. The top students had closer to perfect scores.

My kid got a perfect score with 3.9/4.7 GPA - a public kid. So, yeah, it depends.

Given the fact that only about 500 kids per year receive a perfect score (defined as 2,400), it would really be an outlier for student receiving such a score to be outside of the top 10% of his or her class - whether public or private. One of the following is probably true in this case:

1. This student is brilliant but not particularly hard working in the classroom
2. You are using a liberal definition of "perfect"
3. This student is a statistical anomaly

In any of the circumstances above it does not disprove the general comments being made by most posters that you are more likely to find a B/B+ student at the top local privates with 2,200 SATs than one would at a public school.

I think all private school parents want to, need to believe that.

NP: I don't want to or need to believe this because I don't care what other people's kids (public, priavte, homeschooled, no schooling) are doing. I only care about mine. So please don't kid yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our local public an A-/A+ student has SAT's of 1800s. My DD was a B+ at her big three and her SAT's were 2200s. The top students had closer to perfect scores.

My kid got a perfect score with 3.9/4.7 GPA - a public kid. So, yeah, it depends.

Given the fact that only about 500 kids per year receive a perfect score (defined as 2,400), it would really be an outlier for student receiving such a score to be outside of the top 10% of his or her class - whether public or private. One of the following is probably true in this case:

1. This student is brilliant but not particularly hard working in the classroom
2. You are using a liberal definition of "perfect"
3. This student is a statistical anomaly

In any of the circumstances above it does not disprove the general comments being made by most posters that you are more likely to find a B/B+ student at the top local privates with 2,200 SATs than one would at a public school.

I think all private school parents want to, need to believe that.

NP: I don't want to or need to believe this because I don't care what other people's kids (public, priavte, homeschooled, no schooling) are doing. I only care about mine. So please don't kid yourself.

ugh... okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our local public an A-/A+ student has SAT's of 1800s. My DD was a B+ at her big three and her SAT's were 2200s. The top students had closer to perfect scores.

My kid got a perfect score with 3.9/4.7 GPA - a public kid. So, yeah, it depends.

Given the fact that only about 500 kids per year receive a perfect score (defined as 2,400), it would really be an outlier for student receiving such a score to be outside of the top 10% of his or her class - whether public or private. One of the following is probably true in this case:

1. This student is brilliant but not particularly hard working in the classroom
2. You are using a liberal definition of "perfect"
3. This student is a statistical anomaly

In any of the circumstances above it does not disprove the general comments being made by most posters that you are more likely to find a B/B+ student at the top local privates with 2,200 SATs than one would at a public school.

I think all private school parents want to, need to believe that.

NP: I don't want to or need to believe this because I don't care what other people's kids (public, priavte, homeschooled, no schooling) are doing. I only care about mine. So please don't kid yourself.

What does this even mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our local public an A-/A+ student has SAT's of 1800s. My DD was a B+ at her big three and her SAT's were 2200s. The top students had closer to perfect scores.

My kid got a perfect score with 3.9/4.7 GPA - a public kid. So, yeah, it depends.

Given the fact that only about 500 kids per year receive a perfect score (defined as 2,400), it would really be an outlier for student receiving such a score to be outside of the top 10% of his or her class - whether public or private. One of the following is probably true in this case:

1. This student is brilliant but not particularly hard working in the classroom
2. You are using a liberal definition of "perfect"
3. This student is a statistical anomaly

In any of the circumstances above it does not disprove the general comments being made by most posters that you are more likely to find a B/B+ student at the top local privates with 2,200 SATs than one would at a public school.

I think all private school parents want to, need to believe that.

I don't need to "believe" anything. I know the facts. I know the average SAT score at my private, the grade distribution and the same for the local public school. What kind of a weird "Trumpian" I can make up the facts as I see fit reality are you living in?

[Anonymous]

You really can't handle the fact some public kids out-perform your private kids... Amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You really can't handle the fact some public kids out-perform your private kids... Amazing.

That isn't even close to what I am saying. You have very poor reading comprehension. We are discussing grade inflation and its relation to standardized test performance at selective private schools. Do try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You really can't handle the fact some public kids out-perform your private kids... Amazing.

That isn't even close to what I am saying. You have very poor reading comprehension. We are discussing grade inflation and its relation to standardized test performance at selective private schools. Do try to keep up.

okay... i guess my reading comprehension is as bad as your writing skills but... whatever. later bud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You really can't handle the fact some public kids out-perform your private kids... Amazing.

That isn't even close to what I am saying. You have very poor reading comprehension. We are discussing grade inflation and its relation to standardized test performance at selective private schools. Do try to keep up.

Further, the majority of kids getting perfect SATs come from public schools and the majority of the undergrad population at MIT, Stanford and Harvard are from publics. I am saying that ANY student with so-called perfect scores is likely to be near the top of his/her class and that anything less would be anomalous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You really can't handle the fact some public kids out-perform your private kids... Amazing.

Well of course some do. Duh! But that's not what the discussion is about.

[Anonymous]

If you have a B/B+ student, why waste money at private?

[Anonymous]

The simpleton brigade has invaded this thread. We should give up now because there is no way to have a rational conversation about grade inflation when the audience doesn't understand the concept of a curve or degree-of-difficulty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The simpleton brigade has invaded this thread. We should give up now because there is no way to have a rational conversation about grade inflation when the audience doesn't understand the concept of a curve or degree-of-difficulty.

Is that what you call public school families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The simpleton brigade has invaded this thread. We should give up now because there is no way to have a rational conversation about grade inflation when the audience doesn't understand the concept of a curve or degree-of-difficulty.

Is that what you call public school families?

PP here, I am both a public and a private school family. If you are in either category and can't make the distinction between absolute and relative grades, then yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The simpleton brigade has invaded this thread. We should give up now because there is no way to have a rational conversation about grade inflation when the audience doesn't understand the concept of a curve or degree-of-difficulty.

Is that what you call public school families?

PP here, I am both a public and a private school family. If you are in either category and can't make the distinction between absolute and relative grades, then yes.

It's not nice to insult people. Your mom never taught you that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The simpleton brigade has invaded this thread. We should give up now because there is no way to have a rational conversation about grade inflation when the audience doesn't understand the concept of a curve or degree-of-difficulty.

Is that what you call public school families?

PP here, I am both a public and a private school family. If you are in either category and can't make the distinction between absolute and relative grades, then yes.

It's not nice to insult people. Your mom never taught you that?

She did. Believe me, its not her fault. I am just a blunt asshole. Back to the real conversation...