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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who say public school grades are anything like he rigorous private school grades really have no clue.[/quote]

If you seriously believe this is true (maybe this is the GDS troll), then you have no clue about public schools. Read [u]The Overachievers [/u]about Walt Whitman for a description of what life is like among competitive kids at the top area public high schools.  Or talk to any magnet or IB student. Yes, of course there is a tier of publifc school kids who are getting Cs in their non-honors classes, but these are the kids who aren't planning on college--and these are not the kids your child would be taking classes with, if you're one of those people.

Public school kids who are headed to elite colleges generally take 7+ AP classes, often they take 8-9 AP classes. Then they send their multiple scores of 5 into the elite colleges during the admissions process (i.e. they don't wait until after admissions to use the AP score to get out of required courses; in fact, the most selective colleges usually don't let you use APs to get out of coursework anyway). The reason kids send in their AP scores during admissions is that the AP score of 5 demonstrates that your grade of "A" in the AP class was earned during rigorous coursework. By comparison, at most DC-area private schools the average is more like 3-4 AP classes.

This is NOT to say that private high school non-AP classes are necessarily less rigorous than public school AP classes. It's also not to say that APs are ideal (that's another discussion). So please don't deliberately misinterpret me.

The point here is, you're fooling yourself if you think that public school classes taken by the top public school kids are less rigorous than private school classes. The colleges appreciate this (viz. their interest in AP scores of 5) and they definitely take it into account during admissions.

Signed, parent of public and private school kids[/quote]

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