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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of our frustration as parents comes from our own outdated understanding of the landscape, which is radically different today. Most of the misunderstanding probably surrounds the idea of "high stats kids" because we are using the metrics and SAT scales from the 90s. It is pretty sobering to realize that an estimated 20,000 students will score at ~1530 or above every year in one sitting (top 1%). With superscoring, that number of students will be even higher. This varies by school type, but I have also seen estimates that nearly 50% of US students will graduate high school with overall averages in the A range. [/quote]

This!  1530 is the new 1400.  4.0 is the new B.  The scary thing is you can't differentiate further among the ones with 1530+ and 4.0 on numbers.  It creates a delusion of "high stats kids."[/quote]

Agree ... so many of these kids test and retest, super score, study and have tutors, specialized college counselors etc. to achieve these stats.

These are bright kids, but universities cannot tell the difference between these kids and the EXCEPTIONALLY bright kids who score in the 1500-1600 first try no prep, ace AP tests with little to no prep, don't have to work that hard for a 4.0+ with max rigor at a top/competitive HS. We have a super high stats kid that read War and Peace on their own as a freshman in HS "for fun"...meanwhile you have T20s offering what basically amounts to remedial literature courses.

Grade inflation is real. TO has really affected the academic quality of students at T20.

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Why would a college want a kid who, in your words, "doesn't work that hard"?  Seems like a weird argument in favor of kids who are disengaged.
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It's not that they "don't work that hard" -- it's that they don't *have* to work that hard to achieve the same results. 
These kids are natural academic superstars. There is a difference between kids like that and the ones who have to spend hundreds to thousands of additional hours studying etc. to achieve the same/similar grades/scores. There just is. It's nothing that you can do as a parent. No special schooling, or ECs or tutoring or anything. They just are who they are.

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