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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, the good news, after 4 years, your kid will be incredibly well prepared for college and likely find college to be easy.

-parent of big3 kids who are in college[/quote]

I am not sure how that is "good" news.  Also, are you claiming Big3 kids are somehow able to just waltz through college senior-level STEM classes because of their Big3 training?[/quote]

My class of '22 big 3 grad is killing it currently at their T15 school. They are not waltzing, no, but they work fairly hard and get results that are superior to most of their T15 peers, so far.

Their professors repeatedly tell them what an excellent writer and thinker they are, actually.  One prof, who many DC parents would know, called my kid a 'standout.'  I attribute a LOT of this to kid's HS experience, which was indeed rigorous.  And [u]excellent.[/u][/quote]

Are you now claiming your Big3 grad is superior to the boarding school and LA/NYC private school kids?[/quote]

No idea. That wasn’t the prompt though.  The above post responded to someone wondering if a deeply rigorous HS education at a (grade-deflating) big3 might make even a top college feel like a “waltz.”  The answer for my kid is a qualified Yes. Perhaps their Andover alum college classmates feel exactly the same, who knows[/quote]

The prompt actually was whether a big3 grad could “waltz” through “senior level STEM classes” as a result of the implied ass kicking the student received at Sidwell or the like. My big3 kid is getting among the highest grades, or the very highest in a few cases, in upper level math and econ classes, and also their humanities classes and chem.  They don’t find the work particularly difficult compared to their HS. Sorry if you deem this blather,  and most of all I deeply apologize that the kid isn’t a CS major. Since everyone knows that’s the only difficult and worthwhile major.

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So the answer is no.  What’s the major?  No humanities major is taking “upper level math or Econ classes”…unless you consider a basic college class “upper level”.

It’s strange you know the specifics of your kid, his classes, his grades, supposedly his grades vs his peers, etc.[/quote]

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