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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regional and [b]national universities and liberal arts colleges seem to be putting less and less stock in GPAs and rank in clas[/b]s as the years go by, and more and more emphasis on standardized test scores, interview reports, evidence of intellectual curiosity and maturity for age, and co-curricular and extra-curricular accomplishments.  It's a rational trend, since earning an A average at one school can entail roughly the same amount of work of earning a B, or even a C, average at another school with higher standards (and higher-performing students).  [/quote]

As a Wilson parent on the edge of full college search mode, the common data sets for these schools shows that this is not true.  For every top school you can name, a good number of students come from the top 10% of the class and have 3.8-4.0 unweighted GPAs.  Those are the common denominators I've seen in the research on colleges we've done so far.  Some schools are frittering around the edges and putting less emphasis on test scores.

I think what the principal is trying to do is a great step.  I think it takes guts.  Wilson is two schools in one and this is an attempt to try and break it down some.  When I read the article I knew it would get some criticism here on DCUM. I support what she's doing 110%.[/quote]

Easy to say when you have already benefitted from several years of "Yale or Jail" and your dcs education is likely to be unaffected.[/quote]

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