Average GPA at SWW (DC "magnet") is 3.93 unweighted; this is what private kids are up against
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Anonymous
This reminds me of my bad public high school. We took AP Physics and all got As….we all took the AP exam and no one understood how to answer a single question. |
Anonymous
How are Walls AP results? |
Anonymous
what a petty, jerky post. And they say all the jerk parents are at private school....This post certainly proves otherwise |
Anonymous
Um, you're all bashing on Walls kids. Give me a break. Congrats to your kids acceptance. Yale is a fantastic school! I know another girl from Walls going to Yale as well. |
Anonymous
Then Yale must be selecting the low hanging fruit this year. |
Anonymous
Except it's not ..and not even close |
Anonymous
| Anyone that things tye majority of private school parents don't send kids to private schools for college results should read this thread. Grade inflation has been around for a while. Too bad these parents just figuring it out! |
Anonymous
Did you read the article which stated AP school grades don’t align with actual AP test scores? |
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I actually read all 13 pages of this thread. What a waste of time Is there grade inflation at some school? Yes. Why is there this continuous battle on DCUM about private vs public education?
My kid wanted to go to a big state university. Was a lifer (at a private -Big 3) who wanted a new experience at a big state flagship university. Accepted to 9. My kid did not get into or was rejected from kids top 3 choices. So what. My kid is excited about the choice he made, I hope my private school kid is friends with your public school kids. The horror of private school children interacting and having potentialy life long friendships with public school kids is just...I could go on but I won't. |
Anonymous
They are not "up against" anything. Colleges and universities are well aware that some DC privates are on a 4.0 scale. And 4.53 is what it takes a public kid to get into UVA. Everyone knows there are two standards. What has changed, however, is with the new equity movement, public kids are being chosen over the more privileged privates. |
Anonymous
Very strong - I congratulated my son after he got 5 and he said it was no big deal. All of his friends got 5s and 1 got a 4. |
Anonymous
You're proud of grade inflation? |
Anonymous
| Ok good for those that got in and are doing well. I’m keeping my kids in private. |
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Do you want your children to learn things or do you want to them to go famous schools? This is the trade-off of which you need to be aware, and this trade-off is one that replicates in college. Harvard, which passes out As as if they were Halloween candy, gets their kids better admissions to grad school than schools that don't.
https://www.the74million.org/article/students-benefit-tough-grading-standards/ 'Across several metrics of academic success, students who were exposed to higher grading standards fared better than their peers. Compared with students who had previously demonstrated similar levels of math performance, those assigned to stricter graders saw larger scoring gains. Notably, those effects were both sizable and linear, meaning that the tighter the grading practices — moving from the easiest-grading quarter to the very hardest — the larger the improvement on test scores. Students of tougher graders also maintained some of their scoring advantage into the next two classes of North Carolina’s math sequence, geometry and Algebra II. The effects were actually twice as large in Algebra II as they were in geometry, a nuance the authors specifically cited in the paper: Perhaps because of the similarities in content between the two levels of algebra, they theorized, students who were formerly held to higher standards did especially well in the later class, even though the effects should have faded more because of the further passage of time. “That suggests this wasn’t a pure grade-chasing effect where students crammed more for the test so that they could do better and get the grade they needed,” Gershenson explained. “Instead, it makes me think that there was some real learning that happened and was retained.”' |
Anonymous
lololol!!! textbook sour grapes |