Reply to Is it true the Big 3 kids are getting hammered this year- and by that I mean bad admissions results?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Is it true the Big 3 kids are getting hammered this year- and by that I mean bad admissions results?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]My kid has close to a 4.5 coming from a public school and it means absolutely nothing; might not even be top 20% of her class. She’s learned almost nothing the last year. Grades are determined by which kids are willing to grind/retake tests; they’re not a reflection in any way of content mastery. [/quote] This is only true for public schools. Private school kids aren't allowed to turn work in at the last minute and get full credit or retake tests to get a higher score. [/quote]

My public school kid can do retakes. On any major test where she scores below an 80%.  The most she can bring up that test score to, however, is an 80.  So believe what you will but public school kids 4.5 gpa is impressive. [/quote]

That’s still a huge advantage. One bad day and a 65 on a test can tank a class average.  An 80 is much easier to overcome.

My private school kid missed a deadline for an assignment the other day and got a zero. He has to just live with that and work harder to bring his class grade back up to an A.  He’ll probably do that by the end of the year, but he’s learned a lesson about keeping up with his assignments and not digging himself into a hole. [/quote]

My public school kids have had no benefit of test retakes. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics