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[quote=Anonymous]The other thing is that grades in college are everything these days, especially if your kid wants an elite internship or a competitive career like consulting or finance. My perspective of watching this play out with my own kids and others is that the public school kids (especially DCPS) take a semester or year or more to get up to speed. The private school kids are getting the 4.0 from fall semester of freshman year. I've known a lot of public school kids who struggle at elite colleges the first year because it's the first time they've had to take a cumulative midterm or final , write an essay longer than a paragraph, read a book (yes, DCPS), turn things in on time, every time, etc. It doesn't work well because there is no room for GPA error in this day and age. [/quote]
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