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[quote=Anonymous][quote][quote=Anonymous]The [b]Covid era grading is the biggest issue[/b], especially for kids coming from a school or district where grading was not impacted during Covid. My dc are in private school (not DC) and while they were given the option to go P/F in spring 2020, after that, grading was as usual, even though school stayed online for another 6 months! In other places, kids were given As without even turning on cameras, which means that there are many high GPA kids.

[quote=Anonymous]I don't think anyone knows. 
Test optional policies have increased the pool of qualified applicants to the top schools by many fold.

Also, the class applying this year had Covid-era grading for 2 years of the 3 that are considered for applications.  [b]In DCPS (for instance) the lowest grade a kid could get was a B if he/she did any work.  MCPS bumped all final grades up by one letter grade. [/b] Lots of stuff like this happened all around the country in giant school districts (so hundreds of thousands of students impacted).

The class of 2025 will be the first that will have all 4 years back in a classroom with normal grading scales. [/quote][/quote]

I know so many kids struggled and didn't get the support system they needed during Covid. And I completely understand the well meaning efforts to give them a lift but I also feel for the kids who continued to put in the hard work and not just ride it out to only get "lost" in the inflated pool of applicants. [/quote]

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