Straight As but can’t get into college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are meaningless without knowing the associated rigor of classes, and all schools -- public and private -- offer classes of various degrees of rigor.

But the trend toward the abolition of reliance on standardized tests is worrisome. Panned these days for not being perfectly unbiased and favoring kids whose parents can pay for more prep work, they were actually more of an equalizer -- to let a kid in a poor school show he's got as much talent as the kid at W School or Sidwell. As colleges trend away from testing, however, they will not have that relatively objective factor any longer. Much more will be lost than gained if this trend continues.

Bowdoin hasn't used standardized tests for over fifty years. I think they've figured it out.

That is because Bowdoin only had takes kids from established New England Boarding schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are meaningless without knowing the associated rigor of classes, and all schools -- public and private -- offer classes of various degrees of rigor.

But the trend toward the abolition of reliance on standardized tests is worrisome. Panned these days for not being perfectly unbiased and favoring kids whose parents can pay for more prep work, they were actually more of an equalizer -- to let a kid in a poor school show he's got as much talent as the kid at W School or Sidwell. As colleges trend away from testing, however, they will not have that relatively objective factor any longer. Much more will be lost than gained if this trend continues.

Bowdoin hasn't used standardized tests for over fifty years. I think they've figured it out.

That is because Bowdoin only had takes kids from established New England Boarding schools.

Nope! Wrong!

The 520 members of the Class of 2025 are:
51% men, 49% women
71% from outside of New England
40% students of color
12% international background*
8% Maine residents
17% first generation to earn a four-year degree
13 states with ten or more students (CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, PA, TX, WA)

https://www.bowdoin.edu/admissions/at-a-glance/class-of-2025.html

[Anonymous]

About half of Bowdoin students come from private schools.

[Anonymous]

Stats above are the same stats you would find in NE Boarding School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stats above are the same stats you would find in NE Boarding School.

Keep moving the goalposts that always works perfectly.