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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected. [/quote]

I think it has more to do with test optional.  Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt.  I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.[/quote]

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.[/quote]

The education is great.  Full stop.  But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances.  Full stop.[/quote]

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools. [/quote]

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90.  People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.[/quote]

My experience as well and even the bottom of the class was still gaining acceptance at excellent schools. What was true then still remains true today....[/quote]

The grade depressed students are getting fed to Midwestern state universities as OOS tuition applicants. Those schools are weak academically and do not have the limits on OOS admission rates that MD and VA state universities and colleges have.[/quote]

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