Normal people?
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Anonymous
When you and I were in high school a 4.0 was a perfect grade, all "A's". How can a kid do this today without "burning the midnight oil"? If that's true, something is very wrong with the school and its grading system! |
Anonymous
I can tell you this is NOT happening at any MCPS public schools. 11+ is unusual and anyone who says otherwise is lying. |
Anonymous
They are burning the midnight oil or they are taking easy classes. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
There is no “ baseline” grade in MCPS. |
Anonymous
A perfect SAT isn’t exactly normal. That’s exceptional. This post is talking about kids who are not perfect |
Anonymous
| I've got normal kids! I promise! |
Anonymous
Same here! A’s and B’s, sophomore with 1000 on PSAT (whoops!), first AP this year, only 2 planned for junior year…people like us exist, I swear! |
Anonymous
“Tippity tip top of the top” sounds like a line on a bad rap song.  Where do you people come up with this sh!t?
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Anonymous
Sounds like a very normal smart kid at a high achieving high school. This is still above average. |
Anonymous
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I have two normal kids at challenging private high schools. One is a Senior with a 3.3 and 29 ACT admitted to 10/12 schools he applied to. 0 AP or Honors. Second, is a Sophomore who has taken a few Honors classes and will take 2 APs next year abs may be 3 Senior year. She currently has a 3.8 but I’m expecting will be hard to keep that up. No info on testing yet.
Both schools do not offer many APs and don’t begin them until Junior year. |
Anonymous
| 11+ APs in a year😂. Sounds like the old tailor story. 11 in one blow. |
Anonymous
Yep - me too! Both of my kids - and neither will be Ivy league or likely anything close - but they are happy, healthy, focused on doing their best, and have a good social network. So - that's me bragging. 
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Anonymous
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People always think their immediate circle = normal. If you have a kid who is in the top tier of their school, whether that's from their own desire or parental pushing, you think the top tier is normal. And, if you went to an Ivy league school (even if you couldn't get in today) you think that's normal and can't imagine that the vast majority of the population has a happy life without that.
There's also a segment on here that takes *everything* about college discussions as a competition. If someone says their kid is getting a great education at little-known school X, that kind of person has to jump in to say it's nowhere near as good as the education at T20 or whatever. Who the F cares?? They just can't be OK with someone who either wasn't competitive for a T20 or couldn't afford it actually being happy and doing well at a tier of school that would make them disown their own child. They assume any anecdotes about success from these schools MUST be a one-off, despite data that shows otherwise. These are miserable people and I really hope I don't know them IRL. I'd call my kids average smart kids at an affluent public school. They are/were probably top 25% of their class. Mostly As and some Bs for final grades with the occasional C in a tough quarter. They take a "light" load, compared to friends who tend to be more in the top 10%, by taking only 3 APs in junior year but more in senior year, although some of those are the "easy" APs. The fact that this puts them in the top 25% means there are plenty of kids who aren't getting as good grades and/or taking as rigorous a schedule but to them they feel like "everyone" takes 4-5 APs junior year. Neither of them is on a sports team or doing a ton with school clubs or being a leader. Older DC had a community service activity he cared about and he spent a lot of HS hanging out with friends and playing video games but he's also a whiz at math. He's now happy at a big state school, doing a LOT of math. Being through the process once has made me more relaxed with #2 who also has one academic passion, a community service activity, loves her time playing in the band, and outside of that and homework seems to spend way too much time watching YouTube. She's not going to an T20 but we've ID'd a variety of LACs we can afford where she can do what she wants and they have excellent grad school and career placement outcomes. (and, yes, for the insecure T20-or-nothing segment, I know those "excellent" options may not be as good as an Ivy etc. but you can shut up about it. And she has zero interest in going into IB/Consulting thank goodness!). I also had this skewed perspective of "normal" since most of the kids my kids spend time with were on that honors/AP track. Then I started doing some tutoring at their HS and met a much wider range of students. Who are also great kids who also get into colleges that will provide them plenty of opportunities. (yes, yes, I know it will be inferior to an T20 so you can keep patting yourself on the back  )
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Anonymous
👍. +1000 |