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

[Anonymous]

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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.

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!

I’m the poster from out of DC and you seem crazy to me. But this whole thread seems crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SWW is also not your typical public school though, right? It has many aspects that are private school-like.

You are correct. It is an interview/magnet school--so it is apply and opt in, like a private. We know lots of kids who have gone there. It's a path to a good college. The kids do work really hard, just like private school kids,

[Anonymous]

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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!

That’s interesting. I really think it’s impossible to describe why this is the right choice no matter what unless you’ve experienced it. It’s a lifelong effect provided you’re at one the absolute top privates. As for the colleges, remember that the billionaire kids, royalty kids and celebrity kids don’t go to U Penn or whatever. Nature of life and jobs is changing. Grind and grit are not what they used to be. I don’t know, what’s a million these days anyway? A started home in fat out exurbs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SWW is also not your typical public school though, right? It has many aspects that are private school-like.

You are correct. It is an interview/magnet school--so it is apply and opt in, like a private. We know lots of kids who have gone there. It's a path to a good college. The kids do work really hard, just like private school kids,

Maybe. But 3.93 AVERAGE is crock. It’s enough to discredit the whole enterprise

[Anonymous]

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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. 🙁

SWW only accepts 9th graders who have straight As. How is it a surprise that these kids will continue to be the kind of students who make As?

This isn't true. You can have As or Bs.

it's REALLy hard to get Bs at Deal (DCPS middle school). You have to basically not turn things in. my kid is in algebra and this week received a sheet with every missing assignment that she can submit this week for full credit. Also listed were every exam--she can retake them all this week and they're the same problems as the first time. If you can't get an A in this system you are simply not doing ANYTHING.

Not technically. They only invite the top X number of kids to even interview after lottery application. The year my kid was in 8th, he didn’t make the GPA cutoff with a 3.8.

Also not true about DCPS being hard not to get a B. There are plenty of Cs and Ds to be had. This narrative got pushed around a lot. At Deal you can’t have a single C to get honor roll (even if you have all As and one C) and can’t have a single B to get principal honor roll. They published the names of each for all grades each quarter. There weren’t even 20% of the class getting honor roll so can we stop this narrative already?

Yes, you get a million opportunities to make up work, but we also dealt with teachers not grading work after it was turned in, not having a teacher all quarter or a year. Having teachers go on leave and never coming back with no communication.

I don’t get the beef, you’re free to attend SWW or JR. Also, the private kids are getting into good colleges just fine. I know it was scary with so many NCS kids getting deferred or rejected ED but it’s clear most of them are landing somewhere based on IG.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SWW is also not your typical public school though, right? It has many aspects that are private school-like.

You are correct. It is an interview/magnet school--so it is apply and opt in, like a private. We know lots of kids who have gone there. It's a path to a good college. The kids do work really hard, just like private school kids,

Maybe. But 3.93 AVERAGE is crock. It’s enough to discredit the whole enterprise

It’s a magnet high school only. Meaning they don’t have any subpar kids in their high school that are there because they stared in 1st grade. You had to have a 3.9 to even apply. How is it a crock? You’re unhinged. TJ prob has similar GPA.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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).

OP's thread.

Happy for you.

Move on, then.

[Anonymous]

Free country tho, innit?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Exactly! The title of this post is not correct! It’s 3.93 WEIGHTED. So plenty of kids are getting B’s and C’s in classes that are honors/AP. This whole thread should be deleted or the title fixed.

[Anonymous]

Wait, so it took one of the private school folks to call you out on math on page 4? Now you know where that mil went. As Zlatan said, you’re welcome

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SWW is also not your typical public school though, right? It has many aspects that are private school-like.

You are correct. It is an interview/magnet school--so it is apply and opt in, like a private. We know lots of kids who have gone there. It's a path to a good college. The kids do work really hard, just like private school kids,

Maybe. But 3.93 AVERAGE is crock. It’s enough to discredit the whole enterprise

It’s a magnet high school only. Meaning they don’t have any subpar kids in their high school that are there because they stared in 1st grade. You had to have a 3.9 to even apply. How is it a crock? You’re unhinged. TJ prob has similar GPA.

Read the article. Even the school administrators in the article are saying there is something seriously wrong with the current grading system and are warning the students that this will probably not last.

[Anonymous]

Duh. A mil bought me some understanding of the bell curve

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SWW is also not your typical public school though, right? It has many aspects that are private school-like.

You are correct. It is an interview/magnet school--so it is apply and opt in, like a private. We know lots of kids who have gone there. It's a path to a good college. The kids do work really hard, just like private school kids,

Maybe. But 3.93 AVERAGE is crock. It’s enough to discredit the whole enterprise

It’s a magnet high school only. Meaning they don’t have any subpar kids in their high school that are there because they stared in 1st grade. You had to have a 3.9 to even apply. How is it a crock? You’re unhinged. TJ prob has similar GPA.

Read the article. Even the school administrators in the article are saying there is something seriously wrong with the current grading system and are warning the students that this will probably not last.

Excellent. Then we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the plucky little private schoolers are not up against so very, very difficult a challenge.

[Anonymous]

Whut?! We aren’t plucky; we are more like steady.
You folk are plucky, no? Enjoy the pluckiness and the Ivies. Let’s see how that all turns out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whut?! We aren’t plucky; we are more like steady.
You folk are plucky, no? Enjoy the pluckiness and the Ivies. Let’s see how that all turns out

No, you’re plucky. Soldiering on through all that disadvantage during college admission season. It’s inspiring, heartwarming. You should be proud.