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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Simple statement of fact. When I graduted a 3.5 was good enough to get into the state's flagship university. Now it won't get you into GMU or JMU.[/quote]

To be fair, there has been a lot of grade inflation since then. The average grade today is higher than it was a couple of decades ago and more. In addition, the SAT was "recentered" in1995, so the scores you hear kids getting today appear higher than scores from before 1995.

Just for fun, somewhere out there on the internet is a site where you can input your old SAT score and get the equivalent of what it would be today.

Here's the link:

http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/equivalence/sat-composites[/quote]

Interesting link. I had totally forgotten about the recentering of the SAT. I'm the OP and it is refreshing to come back to see the comments here, well, other than the one blaming the influx of Asians.  The way I look at it is that's just this period of time.  If you go back on history, the same could have been said for other immigrant groups, the Polish, the Italians, the Germans, etc.

What else I've liked about this strand is people are looking back to what they were when young and what they did or didn't do in school and how they have turned out, quite well if you are posting here most likely.  I think many parents lose sight of the long haul.  Truth in advertising now, my own children are now adulte.  I have BTDT but only without the social media aspects we have now. I sweated when to start my child in kindergarten. I had my DH calling me to give me the scores we got in the mail to try to figured out if my DS was getting into GT. I also been there to see them grow, have problems, get suspended and succeed and graduate.  I've been there to see them take the easy out in college and then take a few years to get their act together and finally, totally of his own, study, apply for and get into law school, including doing the FASFA on his own.  Things you sweat about when they are young are only a small piece of their lives.

When my ds were little I heard a speaker say you will only know if you have been a good parent when they are in their 20's and come back to thank you.  That was hard to believe then, but 20 years later, so true.

End of message.  Go on about out wonder average kids![/quote]

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