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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you’re overestimating the importance of stellar ECs for anything other than the most elite college admissions.

On the other side of the ledger,[b] private school parents on here saying that their schools don’t have grade inflation are also wrong (just look at the average GPAs) on the profiles for private schools, where B+ is the norm) [/b]and kids from the best privates aren’t getting into top colleges because the schools allow them to pad ECs.  It’s because they practice selective admissions and the typical student arrives with innate abilities and scores higher on standardized tests etc.

Private schools aren’t not winning the elite college admissions battle because their kids have more impressive ECs.   Nope.  [/quote]

The top private schools require kids to have all As for admission in middle school or for 9th grade. Then these kids go on to graduate in classes with an average GPA of 3.5 and an average SAT of 1500 and generally 5's on the APs.  How to you propose "grade deflating" those kids more?  Since apparently you think an average of 3.5 is "inflated"?  You want to give kids C's in classes that they get 5's on the AP exam in?  You want to teach to an average GPA of 3.0 while the cohort has an average SAT of 1500? Do tell. [/quote]

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