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Reply to "calm down about the college-admissions madness"
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[quote=Anonymous]"I realized things have seriously changed." OK, but HOW have they changed? One group says the change is that everyone has no room for error and has to work harder because you need a 3.7 to get into UMCP. Another group says the change is grade inflation and a 3.7 today is the same as a 3.1 back in the day. HS grade inflation IS REAL. Just the idea that getting less than a 50% on a test these days is hard inflates grades compared to averaging in 0's if you get everything wrong. Looking at my kids HS work, I know the schools have removed the most difficult problems, but then the vast majority, back in the day, never got those problems correct leading to lots of grading on a curve. So which is better, knowing that you only learned half the material but getting an A minus because you new more than everyone else OR having to stress over making a silly mistake on a test because you know 25% of the class is going to get a 100%? [/quote]
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