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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These universities have been around for a long time and have seen many students from the nations public and private high schools come and go.  They are familiar with many of these high schools and are able to interpret the different transcripts.[/quote]

So, they have experience with interpreting transcripts from a pandemic year in which some kids were in class full time and some were learning (and being tested) via zoom?  Do tell. [/quote]

No but they do have all of freshman and sophomore year and half of junior year before the virus struck so that is not nothing.  And I have not seen anything to indicate that for the most part, the class of 2025 is radically different from the class of 2024, or 2023.[/quote]

Don’t engage with that troll. S/he thinks the public kids all cheated and should just be sent to large stage flagships or lower ranked schools. [/quote]

Yes. Everyone who contradicts your world view is a “troll.”   :roll:

Try to pay attention — cheating in DL is rampant — in privates and public schools. And it’s high-achieving public school kids that are most hurt.

Among my friends & family, the Public school kids are more likely to have teachers that are doing the bare minimum.   Last year, many didn’t even do that — I had friends whose kids had teachers completely disappear for weeks on end.   Add in widespread cheating, and those kids who were at the top of their class are now in a sea of kids that look just like them. The class of 2022 will have freshman year and half of sophomore year before the virus struck. The old conventional wisdom was that colleges discount, if not completely disregard, freshman year grades.  Now they’re the be all end all? Add in test optional, and it’s a perfect storm that makes colleges applications an exercise in arbitrary decision making.

If you’re a first gen or have some other “hook,” you’ll likely be ok. Your average upper middle class high performing student is buying a lottery ticket.

The good news for the class 2022 is that they’ll be prepared for it and will adjust their expectations accordingly. After all the reports from this year, expect the “everyone applies everywhere” situation to be exacerbated. I predict that the “match and “safeties” will be as inundated as the top Schools were this year. And the reports of test optional kids that got into HYP will only make that situation even more ridiculous. The colleges will have the experience of this cycle, but I haven’t seen anything to make me think next year will be more rational, and it looks likely to be worse. [/quote]

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