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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Student was never going to Brown or Georgetown. Or GW due to cost. Parents were limiting attendance to instate Virginia schools. Just being sneaky about it.

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Wrong.

Brown’s average admit GPA is 3.9 and 4.3 for weighted.

Yale and Princeton cite 3.9 as their average incoming GPA.

It’s the crazy publics—-MoCO with their 5.0 scale and some Nova schools with unlimited AP courses (which the kids then can’t score a 4 or 5 at the end of the year on the exam).

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What am I missing?  You are conflating weighted with unweighted grades.  The average weighted grade at an Ivy is not a 3.9.[/quote]

And it's not above a 4.3 either!!  That's my point.  If you have an unweighted 4.0 with a minimum of 6-8 AP courses--you are more than fine for the top 10 schools.  At UVA a kid like that would be cutoff, even with high scores because of the serious grade inflation in VA public schools ([b]and multiple chances to retake exams and bring grades up-[/b]-not realistic) and the need to be a grind and take 12-15 AP courses even when you can't pass the AP exams for them.  That's the kind of student that ends up there.  [/quote]

NP. FCPS certainly has some funky grading policies post-covid, but the impact of their policies on high acheiving students, the kind who would get into UVA, IMO is negligible. Unless the policy has changed since last year, retake grades max out at an 80%, even if a kid's score is 100%. Kids with high GPAs aren't typically the ones getting 80% on assessments and then pulling As in the classes.

Also grade inflation is not the same thing as grade weighting. Just because you hear a student has a 4.3 GPA, that isn't inflation per se, that's weighting. In FCPS, to get into UVA, you have to be amongst the strongest students in your school. At Langley HS last year that GPA hovered around a 4.5. That's no different than local privates who might grade on a 4.0 scale.

UVA also wants kids to take the most rigorous course load, which does lead to kids cramming in APs in FCPS. Which sucks. [/quote]

Kids who are out sick always get to retake tests, they turn a zero into a not-zero.

Kids who don’t like their SAT score can retake no excuse needed all they like.

Teachers love to give out “practice tests” and “open book tests” to high performers.

How about grading curves where everyone failed the test but will you look at that B and A for everyone. I personally had those in AP classes.

[b]The real problem here is that if everyone can retake like that then what’s special about their kids - that they are great test takers - becomes meaningless.[/b]

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By allowing infinite bites at the apple and giving the answers for corrections, every snowflake looks identical.  There are no longer different.

This is why the college application process has become so crazy and there are so many more applicants at every school.

Scores and grades pre-inflation era--used to weed out kids from applying to every school out there.  Kids with scores and gpas nowhere in range for a university used to not apply.  There were differences in applicants. Now everyone looks identical. You will have 250 out of 650 kids at a HS with above a 4.0 GPA, taking identical classes and then when not submitting scores---how are they distinguished?

We give everyone single kid a trophy now, the true superstars no longer look any different from the masses.[/quote]

If your superstar is so brilliant that they get everything right on the first try, why are the wasting time in school? Take the hint. [/quote]

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