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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, some private school parents on DCUM are resentful of MCPS students, but who is specifically calling for their outright ineligibility for admission to selective colleges?

I think the point here is that some MCPS students benefit from the system and perhaps admissions offices need to adjust accordingly when looking at their transcripts.  But I don't think any reasonably private school parent on DCUM would deny that there remain plenty of MCPS students whose credentials are so stellar that any discounting or adjustment by colleges of their transcripts should be enough to deny admission.[/quote]

Whatever adjustment to GPAs that the admissions committees deem fair (details of which and justification of the magnitude of which no outsider knows) are always made to MCPS transcripts.  Likewise, who is to say the highly selective schools don't give brownie points to private school transcripts (the more the brownie points the bigger the private school is - like the big three of DMV), especially when these highly selective schools already waved green flags of approval to these privates dropping AP courses from their offerings without adversely affecting the admissions chances of their students.  Now more and more universities are dropping SAT/ACT requirement (a la Chicago).  But you will never see "LEGACY BLIND" or 'ATHLETICS BLIND' admissions announcements from any of these universities.  They will gladly continue to offer admissions to sub-optimal students.

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