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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]End of meritocracy in America is how I see it.[/quote]

Right, because getting into and being able to attend St. Albans in the first place was entirely based on merit...[/quote]

Surviving it and coming out on top definitely was.[/quote]

But I'm not sure it shows more grit and intelligence than other kids in different but still very challenging situations.  [/quote]

Kid at Big 3. Another at a well-known and competitive MD public.  I can say, without qualification, that the very top students in both settings are really quite exceptional in absolute terms and would be extremely competitive in relation to top students elsewhere in the country. To hear that the very top STA students have not been admitted to top colleges suggests that meritocracy is indeed no more the norm in admissions. [/quote]

Way to reach conclusions on the basis of extremely sketchy information. There are no “top” kids at STA. the school doesn’t rank or weight GPAs and there will always be a group of kids who are essentially equivalent. [/quote]

Huh?  There are "top kids" at STA.

For example, by senior year there are kids taking math 4-5 years apart (from pre calculus to 3+ years beyond calculus).  there are definitely academic superstars.  there are also kids who take the bare minimum.  And every kid has a GPA.  The school might not rank them but the kids aren't applying without this number behind their name and everyone knows who the top GPA kids are.  [/quote]

Gpa isn’t weighted. Math isn’t the be all end all either. Some do more science than others. Others take the harder humanities classes. It’s not so simplistic.

Others play sports or do ECs the others don’t.  It all factors into applications. There is essentially a group of students that all end up roughly in the same place. [/quote]

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