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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe the NYC privates and boarding schools have pull with admissions but the DC privates have very little with the top universities.

For our Big3 school the "line in the sand" for Duke is about a 3.9.  I know several kids with a 3.8, legacy parents who were TOP donors at the high school who did not get into Duke over the past 2 years.  
It's not something the high school can push through.  [/quote]

There are different lines in the sand because top universities recalculate GPA. This means a 3.9 isn’t really a 3.9 if there is not advanced classes. This is becoming a huge issue for top students who took hard classes and didn’t realize they were better situated and for those with 4.0 who really were not looked at favorable to colleges as they didn’t have enough advanced classes. It may be better to have to pay for private counselor to understand all this stuff. It is complicated.[/quote]

At my kids' school most of the top kids have taken difficult classes.  Maybe not to a person but there is a strong correlation between top GPAs and top classes. 
These schools (the Big3) are almost 3 schools in one:  the superstars, the hard worker/strong students who aren't superstars and the laggers/slackers. 
The superstars who have GPAs above 3.85 or so (many above 3.9) generally take hard classes.  The same thing that motivates a kid to do well all the hard general classes motivates them to take challenging electives. 
Again, not to a person but in general.

I've seen all the admissions data for our school and the acceptances really mirror GPA and unfortunately, most of the top 20 universities don't take kids below a 3.80 or even 3.9 (and some of us didn't even know there was a cohort of kids at our school that had grades that high...lol).  But they exist and they do well with admissions.  Legacy will get a dip down maybe 0.1 or 0.2 from the non-legacy kids.   But it's nothing like Duke taking a 3.5 instead of a 3.9. [/quote]

Many above a 3.9? Aren’t you the same crowd whining about grade deflation in private schools? Looks pretty inflated to me. [/quote]

Above 3.9 translates roughly into top 10 percent kids at Big 3 Privates. [/quote]

yes, it depends on the school and the year.  Top 10% is usually above a 3.9.  Sometimes as low as a 3.85, sometimes as high as a 3.95.  Grades have a been a bit inflated for seniors over the past 3 years due to the Covid (remote) grading.  The first class back to all routine grading is the class of 2025 (current juniors). [/quote]

Oh there you are again the crazy Big 3 mom obsessing over other kid’s grades. The schools don’t share this info… you are just cobbling it together. Just stop.  [/quote]

no--they have the top 20% society and every year it's easy to figure out what the GPA cut-off is if you have a senior and your kids knows seniors, etc.  Last year it was about 3.91. [/quote]

Nice kid you have there, worrying about everyone else's grades ... and then she reports them to you? Yuck. [/quote]

for the love of Pete, my kid was a sophomore last year and knew the cut-off.  It was told to her aby about 10 different kids. 
it was told to me by about 5 different moms on the sports sidelines, etc. 
I'm sorry you and your kid don't have friends. [/quote]

We have nice friends who don't talk about grades. Obsession with other's grades is a bit SAD. And, you have no idea if the rumor mill is true or false. You lap it up like a puppy. What a waste of time.[/quote]

ok, so we have two parents.

1) Parent #1 knows the GPA that constitutes the top 10% of their child's graduating class of 75 kids.  This top 10% designation is publicly celebrated by the school and the names are listed on the school's website.

2) Parent #2 goes on DCUM and makes fun of a parent #1 (who they don't know) for knowing this information.  Repeatedly posts insults about this parent.

Now you tell me who is sad.   :roll:  :lol: [/quote]

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