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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your list looks good!

Make sure your kid takes AP exams and gets 5's on as many of them as he can.  DCPS is known for insane grade inflation and lack of rigor and colleges go through cycles with how much they can trust them. Last year was a terrible year for JR kids who had 4.0's but no/poor standardized testing to legitimize their GPAs.  The dual enrollment and the 1560 will help.  Kids get in trouble when they have a 4.0UW from DCPS and a 1400 SAT. [/quote]

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NP. I’m so sick of people talking about last year’s class like they were disappointments because (relatively) few went to highly ranked private schools compared with prior years. (Also, PP has no idea about enough kids grades and test scores to make the assertion they did. They should stop talking sh*t about a bunch of kids. [b]And, no, I didn’t have a kid in that class.[/b]) Naviance indicates that far fewer class of 2025 kids applied to Ivy League schools than class of 2024 (and that those numbers have bounced back up in 2026). Who knows why? But it seems like last year’s class wasn’t seeking out those schools in the usual numbers.

To the extent that it matters (it doesn’t), class of 2026 already has multiple Ivy admits. 
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I did have a kid in the class and there were a lot of disappointed kids who had high (if not perfect) GPAs, applied all over and had pretty terrible results.  It's frankly disrespectful of you to deny this, especially since you weren't involved. [/quote]

Disrespectful. LOL.

I’m not the one talking about a class of kids like they were failures based on anecdotal info from a few of my kids’ friends. GTFOH.[/quote]

This is absurd. I am not being disrespectful about the kids by reporting what happened. You are by denying it. 
They are great kids, they maxed out the system and are super smart. The system didn't work for them. 
I didn't know every kid in the grade but I knew a who lot of disappointed kids (at least 15) in my small circle. 
Kids who were shut out of Michigan, Ivies, etc despite doing the max they could academically within their school.

[b]I haven't ever spoken of or posted about this before[/b] so if you say "you're sick of people saying this" then clearly I'm not the only one who feels this way. 
[b]You are helping no one by coming on here and denying it a year later when you weren't even in the mix last year. [/b]
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You’re helping no one by extrapolating so much from a single year.

You started with this: “DCPS is known for insane grade inflation and lack of rigor,” which immediately undermines every JR student’s accomplishments—and is demonstrably not true given historical (and current) JR admissions trends. And you make that assertion based on one year where fewer kids applied to and went on to attend highly selective schools. Again, who knows why? For whatever reason, 2025 was a little different—although not for Michigan, where JR had the normal number of admissions. 2026’s results look more “normal” so far.

I’m not going to engage on this further. I hope your kid is happy wherever they landed. 
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