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[quote=Anonymous]My senior is in MCPS and I wholeheartedly agree with you, OP. 
I'm French, and in France, perfect grades are extremely rare. You are supposed to never have a perfect grade, because you can always grow and do better (even math tests have one or two nearly impossible questions so that the brightest students are forced to struggle).

So here my senior has a 4.67 weighted gpa, and I have to say he's had nearly straight As during his 4 years of high school. But what do those As mean? Are the questions really hard? I don't know, the curriculum is so different from the heavily writing-based one in France. I used to spend my Saturday morning school hours writing long dissertations in preparation for the Baccalaureat. Here even his AP history or literature courses only have short answers. At least it trains them to be succinct, I guess? :-)

I wish MCPS could separate the A students like my son from the truly exceptional A++ students that I am sure exist. It's not fair that gifted students are not easily identified. We need more clarity at the top of the scale, and we need colleges to reward the very top academic students. None of that athletic/extra-curricular nonsense.

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