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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So send your kid to public school. Problem solved, right?[/quote]

I know you are trying for a snarky gotcha but as a parent with kids in both, no, there is a serious problem for kids in public too, just in the opposite direction. There are so many kids with identical highly ranked GPAs that admissions for them is essentially a lottery. If there are 500 kids in the senior class with weighted GPAs of 4.5 and above, competitive schools could essentially take all 500 in numbers alone, but of course they can’t. Now multiply that across all high schools in the country with hundreds of kids per school with close to 5.0 weighted GPAs. They are indistinguishable for the most part. It means they end up applying to 20-30 schools, hoping their application gets picked in the admissions lottery. Some kids win, some lose, but it doesn’t seem directly correlated to effort or talent.

I think you have to be willfully blind to not see just how inflated the GPAs are in a lot of public schools these post-Covid days, and how much that hurts those kids, particularly the driven and high-achieving ones. [/quote]

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