Reply to Q about grades: is this unusual or is there grade inflation in MCPS?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Q about grades: is this unusual or is there grade inflation in MCPS?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][i]... At the high school level, our experience (with limited comparisons to private high schools) is that the magnets are more challenging than private schools, but not necessarily the route to take if your kid wants straight As and a shot at the Ivies. ...  [/i][/quote]   
 
12:54 - Why do you think magnet students have a lesser chance at the Ivies than private school students?[/quote]

I'm the poster you quote.  I don't know whether magnet students actually do have either a lesser -- or better -- chance at the Ivies.  I know of lots of magnet kids who have gone on to Ivies. Then again it's hard to figure out exactly what is going on because lots go to the cheaper UMD or UVA - remember these families don't have an obvious history of already paying $35K/year for private schools.  There are a lot of factors to consider.  In a magnet your kid will be up against 15-25 (or more!) other national merit scholarship kids from the same magnet, but then again in a top private there are also national merit scholarship kids and also probably more kids with legacy preferences (not that there aren't Harvard and Princeton legacy kids at the magnets, we know a couple of these too).

Mostly I was responding on the narrow issue of grades and grade inflation, which is the only thing I'm at least a bit confident about. Magnet teachers don't have a problem giving your kid a B or a C whereas, as I said, DC's friends in top DC privates say that As are pretty free on the ground. Whether private school parents families sort of "expect" As or push for them, or something else is going on, I don't know. Anyway, the magnet people will tell you that your kid is taking courses they can't get anywhere else and they claim top colleges recognize this.  Who knows....[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics