Average GPA at SWW (DC "magnet") is 3.93 unweighted; this is what private kids are up against

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, I thought all today’s posts are about how valuable the years and years of private school are for all the precious children. Are we back to private kids being “penalized” and “disadvantaged”?

Too private schools w excellent college prep reputations elsewhere don’t have grade deflation and curve down. Don’t have 3-4 hours of homework every night either. Maybe 2. Plus your ECs. But we moved here and here we are, upper school curving down grades, papers and tests and not even disclosing anonymous class grades. No one knows where they stand. Or what the HoS or teacher will say when they get a college AdCom call or letter or recommendation request.

Now that’s the power of $50k per year.

Wait, what is that?

In ny and boarding schools and stem programs a list of grade or test results is anonymized and posted each period. Transparency.

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Anonymous wrote:Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private. This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their
3.4's for working their a$$es off. 🙁

Yes, and MCPS is just as egregious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private. This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their
3.4's for working their a$$es off. 🙁

I assure you it's not as easy as they make it seem. There's inflation across Public and Privates alike. Colleges are well aware what's going on.

That is the "problem" many privates, at least like SFS and STA/NCS, there isn't inflation.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no! I'll call Yale and let them know immediately what is happening. Actually, I'll just stop in the admissions office because 2 Walls kids who are accepted are visiting this weekend. Oh and they didn't put up their insta achievement yet. Walls did GREAT this year. The kids work hard and come in already knowing how to work hard. I'd say between legacies, hooks, and the early year admissions, the GPA at Sidwell is going to be lower and classes to some extent dumbed down. Kid for kid, the Walls crop is going to win out. (and it's free! and they are getting a great education) and weird private parents are so interested they are reading the school's newspaper.

No no no, we can dare have our children in a grade if more than 140 students or a classroom of more than 16. They just cannot hack it. We need private schools and more attention. And we will only apply to small slacs for more of the same.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not in the DC area but from an area with a similar competitive private school landscape, also with grade inflated public schools, and as far as I can tell the privates are doing just fine in college admissions even for unhooked kids. Is this a DC thing?

It’s a DC thing to be perpetually unhappy with your school choice and claim that other choices are messing up your own. The “public school kids are cheating private school kids out of college admissions” is a fun new twist, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private. This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their
3.4's for working their a$$es off. 🙁

WEIGHTED. The very beginning of this article said weighted. It said the median grade is over 4.0… which means we are talking about weighted. That’s a huge difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private. This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their
3.4's for working their a$$es off. 🙁

It’s like you think private school kids work harder. They don’t. What a strange myth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not in the DC area but from an area with a similar competitive private school landscape, also with grade inflated public schools, and as far as I can tell the privates are doing just fine in college admissions even for unhooked kids. Is this a DC thing?

It’s a DC thing to be perpetually unhappy with your school choice and claim that other choices are messing up your own. The “public school kids are cheating private school kids out of college admissions” is a fun new twist, though.

Okay but are kids from DC privates actually not doing well in admissions this year? Because that does not track at all with what I see in my area, with very competitive private schools and good public schools with grade inflation. The private schools seem to be doing fine.

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So does this mean you are for SATS now as a distinguishing input?

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Anonymous wrote:Solution is clearly for you to put your DC in public since you think it's much easier.

It IS much easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solution is clearly for you to put your DC in public since you think it's much easier.

It IS much easier.

then put them in public. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private. This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their
3.4's for working their a$$es off. 🙁

Yes, and MCPS is just as egregious.

https://rockvillerampage.com/13421/opinion/mcps-needs-to-address-grade-inflation-head-on/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solution is clearly for you to put your DC in public since you think it's much easier.

It IS much easier.

then put them in public. Problem solved.

Who said there was a problem? Wouldn’t trade the peer group, alumni group or the surroundings, but love the SWW too (albeit you can’t have that gpa average; mathematically that’s croc).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not in the DC area but from an area with a similar competitive private school landscape, also with grade inflated public schools, and as far as I can tell the privates are doing just fine in college admissions even for unhooked kids. Is this a DC thing?

It’s a DC thing to be perpetually unhappy with your school choice and claim that other choices are messing up your own. The “public school kids are cheating private school kids out of college admissions” is a fun new twist, though.

It's so fun to see these parents who have spent $1 million on their precious Larla's education only to have them end up at worse colleges than the SWW and JR kids. Probably very healthy for the kids though. In the real world at last!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not in the DC area but from an area with a similar competitive private school landscape, also with grade inflated public schools, and as far as I can tell the privates are doing just fine in college admissions even for unhooked kids. Is this a DC thing?

It’s a DC thing to be perpetually unhappy with your school choice and claim that other choices are messing up your own. The “public school kids are cheating private school kids out of college admissions” is a fun new twist, though.

It's so fun to see these parents who have spent $1 million on their precious Larla's education only to have them end up at worse colleges than the SWW and JR kids. Probably very healthy for the kids though. In the real world at last!

Until half the class at those publics takes six years to graduate undergrad, drops out or is weeded out of a hard major.