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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do these ratings come from?  Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA.  Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs.  Maybe they will need more private tutoring.  [/quote]

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them. [/quote]

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars. [/quote]

An A+ at Wootton has far more relevance than an A+ at GHS. it’s just simply easier to have better scores when tests are graded on a curve to account for all the kids that fail. So yeah, graduating with a 4.0 at GHS is not nearly the same at graduating with a 4.0 at Wootton. [/quote]

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