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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought all of the colleges knew about and respected the rigor of the big 3.  Or are publics getting more rigorous and now colleges believe they are comparing apples to apples?[/quote]

The issue is that raw incoming GPA matters more than before for a lot of colleges because (a) ranking systems (which colleges still care deeply about even though they might moan about them publicly) use incoming GPA in the rankings and (b) the increase in test-optional and no tests considered at all means incoming GPA is much more heavily weighted. Then Covid changed grading substantially in a lot of public schools in particular, leading to these schools where over half the class has 4.0+ and if they even calculate valedictorian (and a lot don’t), there are 100+ of them. Plus, a lot of the public schools have removed any barriers to AP classes, so kids can easily take 10-12 AP classes. Public schools aren’t getting more rigorous (as someone with kids in both, I’d argue the opposite is true), but grade inflation and the impact of the grade inflation has gone up. [/quote]

I doubt that there are many kids taking 10-12 AP classes when they are getting C's or even B's. While most AP classes do not have barriers to taking them, they do not coddle kids. Kids drop from AP to honors when they struggle, heck kids drop from Honors to Gen Ed when they struggle. There are topics discussing how to go about doing this every year during the first quarter of the school year. Kids who are taking 10-12 AP classes are more likely then not doing well in the classes and on the AP exams and have earned whatever grade that they get. [/quote]

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