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[quote=Anonymous]To people pointing at the school profile PDFs sent to colleges, have any of you actually read these?

The ones I’ve seen for one of the local top 3 schools shows NOTHING about rigor, deflation.

Instead, after 5 years of saying how they were getting rid of APs, and the first full year with no AP at all, the profile for this year sent to colleges right now still shows stats on how many kids took APs and what scores they received.

So there’s your college office being entirely duplicitous. I’m actually kind of shocked that parents have not stormed the office with pitchforks.

And when I’ve told my kid I will complain about this mixed messaging and lack of specificity about median grades or commentary about deflation in some way, my kid has said that parents who complain have kids who get sent (with great subtlety) to the back of the line for help with essays etc.

So the kid has asked me to hold off about complaining until after the office is done with what they need to send for RD cycle.

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