How to Explain Covid Year Grades

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Anonymous wrote:My A/B public school student is getting recruited by most of the Big schools in the area. My kid practices their sport and extra curricular 40+ hours a week and travels all over the country. I am quite fine with them getting Bs as I prefer a well rounded child. See you at a Big 3 PP where my kid will continue to get As and Bs and still go to a better college, for free.

Ok, we get it you are too cheap to pay for college. Its surprising a Big school would take a B student... that means the privates don't have smarter kids if your A/B public school child is getting in. Why makes you think our kids don't get all A's and still do sports and music? You realize they can do it all and still get A's. So, what happens if your kid doesn't go to school for free? Guess its McDonalds for them.

It’s not just do music and sports. Privates don’t want only all A students and you know that. Playing a sport and being one of the best in mid Atlantic are two very different things that require very different commitment.

No, I don't know that but its sad that they don't care as much about academic achievement given how the parents here brag how smart their kids are.

I don't think people actually do brag as much as it seems. Most of the false speculation about "everyone being academically superior" comes from anonymous posters, who are not in admissions, "chancing" kids based on stats of someone they know, which is dumb. Also form people trying to decide if the college admissions at X school is "good enough" for them to apply for their kid. Also short-sighted.

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Anonymous wrote:When did mostly Bs become so terrible? At our rigorous private, Bs are respectable especially during COVID distance learning. It has been a rough ride for so many and so many had diminished learning growth.

I agree with PP who encouraged honesty about extenuating circumstances with death in family.

Good luck OP. May your son find the best fit for him. There a some very good private schools in our area that do not have single digit admit rates and welcome different ability levels.

Its a bit surprising a top private would take kids from public with B's. Nothing wrong with it, but those are not particularly good grades, especially when publics were so watered down in virtual last year. It was nearly impossible to get a B or C.

Kid ended 7th grade with all As except one B in final grades. 8th grade term one 4 As, 2 Bs

If your kid was doing Geometry in 7th or hard classes, I could get it but that's not very impressive given how painful virtual was last year. You basically show up and get 50%

Both my sons never received anything lower than an 'A' their entire time in public middle school. Honors/highest level. I thought it had to be grade inflation.

However, oldest scored in the top 1% of high school entrance exams and has not received anything lower than an 'A' at a tough private with APs./All honors. Sophomore. I now think maybe they are actually smart. I used to downplay it and assumed all their classmates (especially when my kid didn't get into GT in elementary) were similar. Turns out not to be true. Many of those kids are now struggling.

Neither kid studies very much but have great memorization ability.

Grades aren't everything because some kids have the ability but just don't and won't do the work required. My brother was like this. A consistent underachiever in school, but really bright guy. IT drove my parents insane as he could barely keep his GPA at a level required for his athletic scholarship offers.