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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to gauge the gap between expectations and reality here.  If you are Big 3 and your kid got say 1490 with typical grades for someone with that score (not absolutely perfect), where would you hope they could get in (examples of schools) and where are they actually getting in? [/quote]

This is all over the map (academically & geographically): Denison, College of the Holy Cross, Santa Clara, Brandeis, Pitt, St. Olaf, DePaul, University of Rhode Island, University of New Hampshire [/quote]

Those are safety schools for public school kids with those stats. Big 3 can’t even get into Bates or Smith ED with those stats? Kenyon RD? [/quote]

All three schools you listed should not be considered safeties. Why do you think that big 3 students should get into better colleges than public school kids of the same stats?[/quote]

If it is understood that a 3.2 at a private school is like a 3.7 at a public school because of different grading standards, then there should be some effort to make an adjustment. That would be fair and rational right?[/quote]

Well, you chose to send your kid to private school knowing it had a “different grading system.” Second, that’s like saying that a 4.0 in public school could never be considered good enough.[/quote]

That is what they are saying - if you have a perfect gpa at public school and high AP scores you are still less than their B student - it is crazy. And that is how it used to work.   I had very high grades, excellent APs, high SAT from a rural public and wound up at a top 10 SLAC with a bunch of B boarding school kids who were supposedly my equivalent because of the higher standards in private school which was a joke and just works to justify letting in people who the school knows, know how to pad an endowment.  It's a free country and the school can do what it wants, but for people now to be complaining that the system is broken because they can no longer buy their child a spot as easily is not very self aware to say the least[/quote]

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