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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 kids who have gone through the process. My take is kids are just smarter and more academically focused than my generation. Look at SAT scores. They are definitely higher than when I was in HS

The problem is not grade inflation. Kids are taking more academically challenging classes than ever before. Dual enrollment not really a think back in my day. There were maybe 8 AP classes, not the variety they have today. And all the DE/AP classes carry GPA bumps. Mathematically that’s going to increase GPAs over 4.0. I think the race to get into colleges that pushed kids to take many AP/DE classes to get the grade bump that did it.[/quote]

SAT performance isn't higher. SAT scores dropped and the scoring scale inflated and the test got a lot easier and a ton of students got more time. (Note, I think everyone should get more time)

What's happening is that high achievrs at concentrating in a few small areas and competing with each other. It's not a large fraction of people. It's 3% at most, competing to be the 1%[/quote]

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