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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected. [/quote]

I think it has more to do with test optional.  Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt.  I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.[/quote]

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.[/quote]

The education is great.  Full stop.  But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances.  Full stop.[/quote]

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools. [/quote]

+1 Have worked in admissions. What complaining PP says is simply untrue. What IS true is that the last fifty years have seen a huge decline in the number of private school kids accepted at the most selective colleges. There are many very good reasons for this trend  and a well-known DC private not playing the grade inflation game is not one of them.[/quote]

The good old boy network is basically dead for selective admissions. The HOS can not longer make some calls and get a marginal student into Cornell or Duke. At the same time the cost of elite privates have risen to the point where no one really believes that they enroll the best and the brightest, they enroll the best and brightest from UMC and rich families who are willing to pay tuition with a sprinkling of financial aid kids.[b] As long as schools are need aware people can pretend nothing has changed, but any well endowed school that is really need blind has no real reason to preference an unweighed 3.0 at GDS over a 3.75 at Wilson [/b][/quote]

I have kids at a Big3 and Wilson and I can say that the early admits for Wilson in my kid's peer group have been FAR better than the admits from the Big3.  Sure, colleges respect STA and Sidwell but not to the degree that they are accepting a 3.3 over a Wilson 4.8. 
Also and more importantly----in this environment----2020-2021----colleges appear to strongly want kids coming from urban public schools over private schools.  They are looking for minorities, first generation students, etc.  Along this same line, they like kids who are going to high school in a grittier environment.  
It's definitely what in vogue for admissions.  [/quote]

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