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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are kids these days way smarter than kids of our generation? (80s-90s)
Every kid seems to have top scores and all As. Whereas, at my rigorous public high school in the mid-90s, regular bright well-rounded kids with As/Bs but not Einstein-level grades, were going to Northwestern, Dartmouth, UPenn, Wellesley, etc. I had strong but not exceptional grades and got into Vassar. Now it seems in order to get into a T30, you need all As and all APs. Am I missing something here? How is this happening? Did this generation produce geniuses?

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No, kids are less resilient, less capable of critical thinking, but good at taking multiple choice tests with obvious answers.  Professors want good rate my professor scores.   College is just like high school.  Set a low bar everyone gets As, let the employers and professional schools sort out the wheat from the chaff.

Sad really.  [/quote]
College content is much more advanced than when you went. These parents have such bad cope. Continues to call the younger generation less resilient while being old asf and whining on a forum, because some mythical children aren’t to your stupid standard.[/quote]

This.  It is graduation season.  At every graduation some students excelled and get honors at graduation.  Most certainly not all did.  This nonsense that every single kid is sailing through college stress-free acing class is such utter nonsense.  
It's a difficult challenging task to consistently be at the top of your class in college for years.  Don't let these morons on dcum feed you a bunch of nonsense.[/quote]
I realized these parents were all wrong after attending DD’s graduation. Her best friend finds time to be a double major in math and neuroscience, works in 2 labs, has published 3 times and been first author on one of those papers, has highest honors, has 2 jobs to sustain herself- the girl is Questbridge!, starts working full time in a couple days as a research assistant for her advisor while also taking starting night classes for her masters. Her other friends have also done some very impressive work- one worked with the EU and has worked on the successful campaign of two politicians and spent one summer working with bidens office, another got a law fellowship with SLS and did her thesis on field work in Brazil where she lived in a favela and documented the culture of femicide. These kids are working their tails off and of course the grumpy moms here have to trash it.[/quote]

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