Yikes..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where these HS stand with US News has absolutely no bearing on kids getting into college. Colleges just look at the course rigor and student performance.

In fact, coming from a competitive HS can hurt kids as they stand out less among their classmates.

"colleges just look at the course rigor"?
You seriously believe that a college admissions board, with thousands of candidates every year, will look up each candidate HS "course rigor?" lol.

"coming from a competitive HS can hurt kids"?
Everyone knows TJ (even a college admissions board). Besides, you just contradicted yourself? You just said "course rigor" mattered, but now you're arguing that it hurts kids?

It's pretty clear you're making stuff up.

Individual colleges don’t research this anymore. They buy the info from agencies that do catalog and transcript studies. I did that work in the late 1990s. I was boring as hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where these HS stand with US News has absolutely no bearing on kids getting into college. Colleges just look at the course rigor and student performance.

In fact, coming from a competitive HS can hurt kids as they stand out less among their classmates.

"colleges just look at the course rigor"?
You seriously believe that a college admissions board, with thousands of candidates every year, will look up each candidate HS "course rigor?" lol.

"coming from a competitive HS can hurt kids"?
Everyone knows TJ (even a college admissions board). Besides, you just contradicted yourself? You just said "course rigor" mattered, but now you're arguing that it hurts kids?

It's pretty clear you're making stuff up.

Individual colleges don’t research this anymore. They buy the info from agencies that do catalog and transcript studies. I did that work in the late 1990s. I was boring as hell.

Transcript studies are common with Graduate Programs, lesser so at the College/University level, and nearly non-existent at the individual HS level (I don't know of any service that does this? Post if you can find one - I'm interested in how well they do?).

I think this proves that a college admissions board will not have the time to pull each and every school's profile up. There are about 16,800 school districts in the US and there is no way a college admissions board would be able to look them up for every applicant.

Even if such as service existed, and the College / University subscribed to the service; do they really have the time to examine school districts or the individual school? Here's an example of what's on one of these transcript profiles at the school district level. It doesn't even get down to the school-level, so there really is no meaningful "course rigor" analysis at all.

https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/dst2022/pdf/2023011xw8.pdf


What I think happens is that most schools have a mechanical SAT/GPA/AP sorting / ranking, then they review the admissions packages top down until they reach their admissions limit. They may scan a transcript to see what classes / courses were taken. If something like Linear Algebra was there, that would be unusual. But conduct a school-specific comparison? No way. The most that would happen is some schools are will consider the "whole individual" - look for altruism, social activism, or just something really unusual (ex. starting a business).

Again, this all proves the point the other post is a fabrication.

[Anonymous]

What do you expect when you get rid of final exams, make 50% a minimum score on any test/assignment, allow endless retakes and minimumize homework value. Crazy how that works.

MCPS used to be a school system others aspire to. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect when you get rid of final exams, make 50% a minimum score on any test/assignment, allow endless retakes and minimumize homework value. Crazy how that works.

MCPS used to be a school system others aspire to. Sad.

Oh..... and seemingly every class is a 5.0 GPA "honors" class so add inflated GPA's to that list.

[Anonymous]

I have a HS senior at the moment. For admissions I am told that colleges look at the rigor of the child's curriculum against the courses offered. This is what I was trying to say in my earlier post.

Statement stands that these US news rankings will have no bearing on anyone's college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Publics are trash everywhere

I moved to MOCO for access to all the best privates and country clubs. Covid woke me up to the disaster of public schools.

More back-door private recruiting. Y'all must be desperate to fill seats!

You make this comment on every thread and it is foolish. You look like a MCPS employee who can't stand criticism. Yes, ANYONE can comment on public schools. And the most valuable comments are from those with experience both within and outside MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect when you get rid of final exams, make 50% a minimum score on any test/assignment, allow endless retakes and minimumize homework value. Crazy how that works.

MCPS used to be a school system others aspire to. Sad.

Oh yes the mythical MCPS that never existed! LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect when you get rid of final exams, make 50% a minimum score on any test/assignment, allow endless retakes and minimumize homework value. Crazy how that works.

MCPS used to be a school system others aspire to. Sad.

Oh..... and seemingly every class is a 5.0 GPA "honors" class so add inflated GPA's to that list.

Except that colleges calculate GPA using a different scale. Many don't even include non-academic classes and honors and AP are weighted differently.