Sidwell Paid a family $50K and agree to change grades??????????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the evidence against Sidwell is so damning, why didn't they lose in litigation?

I wanna know how a 93 is somehow not an A and how a teacher improves a whole class’s grades so one student gets her A “improved” into a B.
I also wanna know how correct transcripts don’t make it into college applications.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

She was not one of NMSF If you have read the entire thread. Her award is not psat grade-based. I got confused at beginning and then somebody pointed out. Also she had a C in her transcript. So she could not be the real top student In her class in Sidwell.

She was a National Achievement semi finalist, which is part of the National Merit program. It is for the top-scoring PSAT students who are black. She was one of only 14 students in all of DC to earn the distinction. Given that and her other achievements (sports), it’s pretty inexplicable that she would be the only student in all of Sidwell not to gain unconditional admission.

So it means her score was not high enough to be NMSF. She was not one of the 14 NMSF in Sidwell that year. We don’t know her whole academic profile, but it is very likely she was not at the top 15% of her class. It is impossible to get admitted into any ivy if not at the top 5 in a public school. Someone who is familiar with DC private may tell college placement of the top 15-25% students. My common sense tells this is a ridiculous case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the evidence against Sidwell is so damning, why didn't they lose in litigation?

I wanna know how a 93 is somehow not an A and how a teacher improves a whole class’s grades so one student gets her A “improved” into a B.
I also wanna know how correct transcripts don’t make it into college applications.

If what you're saying is true, how does that explain the court rulings thus far?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the evidence against Sidwell is so damning, why didn't they lose in litigation?

I wanna know how a 93 is somehow not an A and how a teacher improves a whole class’s grades so one student gets her A “improved” into a B.
I also wanna know how correct transcripts don’t make it into college applications.

If you’re being graded on a curve, and everyone in the class scores more than 93 percent, then a 93 percent can be an F.

[Anonymous]

Has the phrase “wasn’t accepted unconditionally”come up? It’s in the newspaper article I read and am wondering what it means.

Does it mean she was accepted with some conditions to some schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

She was not one of NMSF If you have read the entire thread. Her award is not psat grade-based. I got confused at beginning and then somebody pointed out. Also she had a C in her transcript. So she could not be the real top student In her class in Sidwell.

She was a National Achievement semi finalist, which is part of the National Merit program. It is for the top-scoring PSAT students who are black. She was one of only 14 students in all of DC to earn the distinction. Given that and her other achievements (sports), it’s pretty inexplicable that she would be the only student in all of Sidwell not to gain unconditional admission.

Inexplicable to you perhaps, but she only applied to highly selective colleges and submitted her only safety application late....poor judgement all around.

No way. Let’s remember that she just graduated from Penn, after all. High-test entrance exam scores, African American woman from a prestigious school and an strong athlete. And not getting into McGill, UVA. Please.

Eh. I graduated from an Ivy. It's not that hard to graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the evidence against Sidwell is so damning, why didn't they lose in litigation?

I wanna know how a 93 is somehow not an A and how a teacher improves a whole class’s grades so one student gets her A “improved” into a B.
I also wanna know how correct transcripts don’t make it into college applications.

If what you're saying is true, how does that explain the court rulings thus far?

It’s all in the filing and anyone can read it online. It’s probably why Sidwell paid them $50k.

[Anonymous]

Hope she could win the case. Our public school students will follow to sue MCPS, especially Blair and other magnet program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

She was not one of NMSF If you have read the entire thread. Her award is not psat grade-based. I got confused at beginning and then somebody pointed out. Also she had a C in her transcript. So she could not be the real top student In her class in Sidwell.

She was a National Achievement semi finalist, which is part of the National Merit program. It is for the top-scoring PSAT students who are black. She was one of only 14 students in all of DC to earn the distinction. Given that and her other achievements (sports), it’s pretty inexplicable that she would be the only student in all of Sidwell not to gain unconditional admission.

Inexplicable to you perhaps, but she only applied to highly selective colleges and submitted her only safety application late....poor judgement all around.

No way. Let’s remember that she just graduated from Penn, after all. High-test entrance exam scores, African American woman from a prestigious school and an strong athlete. And not getting into McGill, UVA. Please.

Eh. I graduated from an Ivy. It's not that hard to graduate.

That’s not what we hear on this board day in and day out.
U Penn has an acceptance rate of 7.44%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope she could win the case. Our public school students will follow to sue MCPS, especially Blair and other magnet program.

Do they stiff students’ grades too and send out incorrect transcripts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the evidence against Sidwell is so damning, why didn't they lose in litigation?

I wanna know how a 93 is somehow not an A and how a teacher improves a whole class’s grades so one student gets her A “improved” into a B.
I also wanna know how correct transcripts don’t make it into college applications.

If you’re being graded on a curve, and everyone in the class scores more than 93 percent, then a 93 percent can be an F.

It was not a curve. Read the filing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

She was not one of NMSF If you have read the entire thread. Her award is not psat grade-based. I got confused at beginning and then somebody pointed out. Also she had a C in her transcript. So she could not be the real top student In her class in Sidwell.

She was a National Achievement semi finalist, which is part of the National Merit program. It is for the top-scoring PSAT students who are black. She was one of only 14 students in all of DC to earn the distinction. Given that and her other achievements (sports), it’s pretty inexplicable that she would be the only student in all of Sidwell not to gain unconditional admission.

So it means her score was not high enough to be NMSF. She was not one of the 14 NMSF in Sidwell that year. We don’t know her whole academic profile, but it is very likely she was not at the top 15% of her class. It is impossible to get admitted into any ivy if not at the top 5 in a public school. Someone who is familiar with DC private may tell college placement of the top 15-25% students. My common sense tells this is a ridiculous case.

No one said she was. She was a National Achievement Semifinalist. That is a program under the National Merit program that recognizes the top-scoring African Americans in the U.S. She had one of the 14 top scores (presumably this also has a cutoff score) in all of DC. So when factored against all the other African Americans at all the other top privates and publics in DC, she had one of the 14 best scores in all of DC. This absolutely should have made her a very competitive candidate. And, ultimately, she did graduate with a degree from Penn in Engineering. She was indeed qualified as evidenced by the final outcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I read the CNN article, my first thought was what f**king parents? Then I found this thread and discover that the student was a good student and have the score to enter any selective college as a black girl. One of the 14 NMSF in entire DC. How many students in sidwell or othe top private schools were accepted into the ivys? If she was in a public school, she will be the poster child student. Unfortunately, she parents made a BIG mistake sending her to Sidwell. She could be the largest fish in a smaller pond, but in Sidwell, as a child of an immigrant, she was nobody! The parents may think my daughter has better grade than the famous first daughter and they have the same skin color. If the first daughter could.get into Harvard, my daughter should have a chance. When thing didnt go their way, they sue. Watched too much American TV and movies! Her parents dont know how to mingle with the elite and thought they can sue their way into the upper class.
I see the whole episode as how new immigrants struggle to climb social ladder. The door towards the elite class is closed to outsider. Breaking the code is not easy. It takes more than SAT and GPA. I wish the girl learneda few thing in Penn and find her way to move up. I am also guessing the family must belong to elite class in their home country.

She was not one of NMSF If you have read the entire thread. Her award is not psat grade-based. I got confused at beginning and then somebody pointed out. Also she had a C in her transcript. So she could not be the real top student In her class in Sidwell.

She was a National Achievement semi finalist, which is part of the National Merit program. It is for the top-scoring PSAT students who are black. She was one of only 14 students in all of DC to earn the distinction. Given that and her other achievements (sports), it’s pretty inexplicable that she would be the only student in all of Sidwell not to gain unconditional admission.

Inexplicable to you perhaps, but she only applied to highly selective colleges and submitted her only safety application late....poor judgement all around.

No way. Let’s remember that she just graduated from Penn, after all. High-test entrance exam scores, African American woman from a prestigious school and an strong athlete. And not getting into McGill, UVA. Please.

Eh. I graduated from an Ivy. It's not that hard to graduate.

In engineering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has the phrase “wasn’t accepted unconditionally”come up? It’s in the newspaper article I read and am wondering what it means.

Does it mean she was accepted with some conditions to some schools?

Gap year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope she could win the case. Our public school students will follow to sue MCPS, especially Blair and other magnet program.

Do they stiff students’ grades too and send out incorrect transcripts?[/quote
Teachers always mess up with tgrades by mistake. Don’t you know that? Never hear a mistake in one test will ruin the whole academic performance. If she was at top of her class, for example top 10%, they would have provided more concrete evidences in stead of these vague descriptions. Come on, use your common sense .