What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:So, sub 3.0 is due to hard grading?

It's due to very high expectations, no opportunities for retakes or extra credit, as in public. In public, hard work alone almost always yields good grades. In these privates, the kids who don't absolutely excel are prohibited from moving into APs or honors classes and given no chances, whatsoever, to improve their position in their class. Something has to set the highest level students apart.

Not really the case at our big 3 private, there is no prohibition to move into honors classes. We don’t have APs anyway.
I don’t know which school you are talking about.

If it's due to high expectations, hard grading or whatnot, do these kids, at least, score respectable SAT scores? Like above 1450+?

They do. No wonder a 3.6 gets into an Ivy. And a 3.0 into Tulane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

If you had a child who was getting Cs it would likely be the reason why you were in private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

If you had a child who was getting Cs it would likely be the reason why you were in private.

What private can you get into with Cs? I doubt you could even enroll in an ADW or CDA school with Cs. I would be genuinely curious to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, sub 3.0 is due to hard grading?

It's due to very high expectations, no opportunities for retakes or extra credit, as in public. In public, hard work alone almost always yields good grades. In these privates, the kids who don't absolutely excel are prohibited from moving into APs or honors classes and given no chances, whatsoever, to improve their position in their class. Something has to set the highest level students apart.

Not really the case at our big 3 private, there is no prohibition to move into honors classes. We don’t have APs anyway.
I don’t know which school you are talking about.

If it's due to high expectations, hard grading or whatnot, do these kids, at least, score respectable SAT scores? Like above 1450+?

The sub 3.0 kids? I bet they do.

Based on what you can see in a avian e, most do, but a few do not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

I don’t think you go to a private with the attitude that simply paying would get you good grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

If you had a child who was getting Cs it would likely be the reason why you were in private.

What private can you get into with Cs? I doubt you could even enroll in an ADW or CDA school with Cs. I would be genuinely curious to know.

CDA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

If you had a child who was getting Cs it would likely be the reason why you were in private.

What private can you get into with Cs? I doubt you could even enroll in an ADW or CDA school with Cs. I would be genuinely curious to know.

CDA?

Catholic Diocese of Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid had mostly Cs, I would wonder if they were in the right school.

We won't pay private tuition for Cs.

If you had a child who was getting Cs it would likely be the reason why you were in private.

What private can you get into with Cs? I doubt you could even enroll in an ADW or CDA school with Cs. I would be genuinely curious to know.

They would have been getting As all along in public, but you know something is off about that. You move to private and, boom, your seeing Bs and Cs, but now your child is actually learning and teachers are paying attention. Worse grades; better educated child.

[Anonymous]

The grading systems between the top private schools and public school are DIFFERENT, not better or worse. This point is always hammered to death on this board. College reps consider your GPA in the context of YOUR school. I have heard them say this directly many times. The argument between people about public versus private in infantile.
Yes, it is true that a B/B+ student at a private might get into the same college as an A/A- student at public (all else being equal) - because the grading systems are DIFFERENT, not because the private school kid is getting a leg up....
Worry about your child, and not how all the other schools set their GPA's.

[Anonymous]

Looks like Sidwell is sending them to Penn State and Tulane

https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Sidwell is sending them to Penn State and Tulane

https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Nah. Not for below a 3.0! Take a closer look a that list.

From Sidwell they are going to UMBC, University of San Francisco, University of South Carolina, and Montgomery College.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The grading systems between the top private schools and public school are DIFFERENT, not better or worse. This point is always hammered to death on this board. College reps consider your GPA in the context of YOUR school. I have heard them say this directly many times. The argument between people about public versus private in infantile.
Yes, it is true that a B/B+ student at a private might get into the same college as an A/A- student at public (all else being equal) - because the grading systems are DIFFERENT, not because the private school kid is getting a leg up....
Worry about your child, and not how all the other schools set their GPA's.

Fact!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Sidwell is sending them to Penn State and Tulane

https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation

Nah. Not for below a 3.0! Take a closer look a that list.

From Sidwell they are going to UMBC, University of San Francisco, University of South Carolina, and Montgomery College.

+ 2 Tulane, Wisconsin, etc. require a 3.3 or above these days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The grading systems between the top private schools and public school are DIFFERENT, not better or worse. This point is always hammered to death on this board. College reps consider your GPA in the context of YOUR school. I have heard them say this directly many times. The argument between people about public versus private in infantile.
Yes, it is true that a B/B+ student at a private might get into the same college as an A/A- student at public (all else being equal) - because the grading systems are DIFFERENT, not because the private school kid is getting a leg up....
Worry about your child, and not how all the other schools set their GPA's.

+1000
Admissions officers know that ABC private school is stingy with As, whereas XYZ public school in the same area has a ton of kids over 4.0. They aren't idiots.They compare apples to apples.