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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh honey... It's not that the kids are smarter. It's that the grading is harder. No credit for test corrections, retakes, extra credit assignments, homework, class participation, etc. Your grades are usually based on your test results and/ or papers (which are graded on a curve).

I think that actually does translate into test scores as well. My Big 3 3.4 GPA kid easily scored 34 on the ACT. I'm sure if he had studied more, he could have brought that up a point or two.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in my third cycle of getting a 3.0 to 3.2 kid from Big 3 to college. This year is absolutely nothing like the other years. I really believe the increasing grade inflation from publics, along with the 50% plus increase in applications to so many schools, has made all schools except the LACS out of reach for the 50th percentile and lower kids this year. My 3.2 kid has been deferred from everywhere and I think is about to get rejected from Tennessee tomorrow, then later Boulder--his top two choices. I do think he'll get into some PA LACs, which is not what he wants. But this cycle is even worse than 2021. I really wish I had sent my kids to public. They would have had fun and had better opportunities. [/quote]

Sorry to disappoint, but I know kids with much higher stats (3.7-3.8 gpa) who were not admitted to Boulder and Tennessee in the EA rounds, so unlikely a lower gpa (especially 3.0-3.2) will get in in RD round. That gpa range needs to look significantly lower on the list (think Montana State), unless major hook. Sorry![/quote]

That’s a 3.0-3.2 from a good private.  Probably equivalent to a 4.5 from MCPS.[/quote]

:lol:  :lol:  I want some of what you are smoking!  :lol:  :lol:   Seriously.. think logically.  Your argument is that a 3.2 at a Private school is equivalent to a 3.8 at a decent Public (equal to about a 4.3 weighted).  That would imply the vast majority of Private school kids are innately smart.  Is that borne out by SAT results?  Not really.  Most Private School kids barely scratch 1450s on the SATs and that is with a ton of expensive prep. The top 100% of the kids at TJ and top 20-30% of the kids at any other public score above that and that's a lot of kids.

Here's what makes sense (and I think colleges are seeing through this).  Private school classes likely have more rigor than public schools. I'll concede that a normal class at a Private is about the same level of rigor as a Honors class at a good public and a Honors class at a Private is about the same rigor as an AP.  The lack of AP classes at a Private school is a problem but that's a you problem rather than a public school kid problem.  All that is to say that a 3.0 at a Private is maybe about a 3.2-3.3 at a Public.  That's it.

How did this delusion work in the past?  Grift. College admissions advisors at Privates had this insider connection with college admissions offices, especially SLACs that wanted a dependable pipeline of full pay students.  Post pandemic, colleges have realized that all they had to level up was go test optional and get on the common app to attract a large number of students.  They are not dependent on your pipeline anymore.

Welcome to post-pandemic college admissions!  [/quote][/quote]

Agreed.  My NCS kid will spend 30-40 hours on a 3 page paper and and turn in something that beats anything I wrote for a master's degree in English literature and she'll get an 89% only to find out that there were two A minuses and zero As awarded out of 80 kids.

Meanwhile my public school kid (at a very strong public high school) will turn in an AP essay that he wrote the night before it was due and get an A every time.  We're sure that he would get straight Ds at NCS.

It's night and day.

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