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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Where do you see the word weighted?

This is the paragraph:

“The junior class at Walls has an average GPA of 3.93, a number school counselor Kathryn Moore called “very high.” She also noted that the median GPA was over a 4.0. That means that well over half the class had a GPA above 4.0 at the start of the 2022-23 school year. This number will likely only increase, as juniors take on more AP classes, which are graded on a 5.0 scale.”

There is nothing to indicate that the 3.9 average gpa is weighted.

[Anonymous]

Erm, I think this is ridiculous but that private school education makes me think it’s implicit because the GPA goes over 4. Just saying. It’s math. Which we excel at in our private school

[Anonymous]

I mean, you chose to send your kids to private, so I don't really see the issue here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Where do you see the word weighted?

This is the paragraph:

“The junior class at Walls has an average GPA of 3.93, a number school counselor Kathryn Moore called “very high.” She also noted that the median GPA was over a 4.0. That means that well over half the class had a GPA above 4.0 at the start of the 2022-23 school year. This number will likely only increase, as juniors take on more AP classes, which are graded on a 5.0 scale.”

There is nothing to indicate that the 3.9 average gpa is weighted.

Since you can't have an unweighted GPA over 4.0, the fact that the median is over 4.0 is proof that they are talking about weighted GPA. That and the comment about the 5.0 scale.

[Anonymous]

Me neither. Except you can’t do math. And it also doesn’t matter. Because it’s GPA at life, the 12 years of which you’ve already compromised

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Where do you see the word weighted?

This is the paragraph:

“The junior class at Walls has an average GPA of 3.93, a number school counselor Kathryn Moore called “very high.” She also noted that the median GPA was over a 4.0. That means that well over half the class had a GPA above 4.0 at the start of the 2022-23 school year. This number will likely only increase, as juniors take on more AP classes, which are graded on a 5.0 scale.”

There is nothing to indicate that the 3.9 average gpa is weighted.

Since you can't have an unweighted GPA over 4.0, the fact that the median is over 4.0 is proof that they are talking about weighted GPA. That and the comment about the 5.0 scale.

Duh. It takes the private school math. Which explains your so-calls GPA

[Anonymous]

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. 🙁

Can you provide evidence for that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So they’re no/less grade inflation at SWWs.

Valedictorian at our public high school had a 5.0 senior year: she took 5 weighted classes and two study halls for the straight As (5 classes)

Salutatorian had straight A’s senior year as well and they were tied going in to sr year (ie same weighted and unweighted cumulative gpa). But salutatorian took 7 classes: five weighted APs, Japanese and a Sr Yr independent research project at a hospital lab weekly. No 5.0 weighted that year, mathematically impossible, Japanese and ISRP were 4.0 As

Colleges saw right through it. Salutorian is by far the most successful and does life sciences at a global Vc, since age 25. now is 45.

[Anonymous]

Sounds amazing. Happy life? Kids? Multimillionaire or a billionaire I assume?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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. 🙁

Can you provide evidence for that?

They're probably the best in the DC for getting unhooked (white/Asian, non-legacy, non athletic recruit) kids into Ivies. This year I don't know exactly but it's probably as many as 10 kids.
Some are on their Instagram, others I just know about. In contrast, the Big 3s' are maybe getting in 2 of these kids per class this year. I have a Big3 kid who attended DCPS until middle school
so we know Walls kids very well as many of my kid's friends attend Walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Where do you see the word weighted?

This is the paragraph:

“The junior class at Walls has an average GPA of 3.93, a number school counselor Kathryn Moore called “very high.” She also noted that the median GPA was over a 4.0. That means that well over half the class had a GPA above 4.0 at the start of the 2022-23 school year. This number will likely only increase, as juniors take on more AP classes, which are graded on a 5.0 scale.”

There is nothing to indicate that the 3.9 average gpa is weighted.

Since you can't have an unweighted GPA over 4.0, the fact that the median is over 4.0 is proof that they are talking about weighted GPA. That and the comment about the 5.0 scale.

How do you know that the 3.9 average gpa for juniors refers to a weighted gpa? I’m not looking for inferences, I’m asking for facts. The student who wrote this article should have made this clear.

[Anonymous]

OP are public Arlington HS had 240 valedictorians out of a class of 600. They all had above a 4.0gpa.

[Anonymous]

^*our

[Anonymous]

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. 🙁

But shouldn’t the Walls kids be getting high grades? Don’t you have to have close to a 4.0 to even be considered?

[Anonymous]

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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

3.93 WEIGHTED. Read the article. It says the mean GPA is over 4.0 which means we are talking about weighted grades.