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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does everyone on this board seem to have a child with a near perfect SAT score and a 4.0 GPA?   Where are the normal kids?   The kids who are not cutthroat or taking 6 APs a year?   I can’t believe so many kids have perfect SaT scores.    Anyone “ normal” out there???[/quote]

A 4.0 GPA isn’t that difficult to achieve given grade inflation across America. 
6 AP’s isn’t that difficult either. I think I did that many in the 90s. The norm these days is 7-12+ for high achieving kids
The near perfect SAT IS impressive and something to celebrate. 
The last two pages of college thread inquire about or mention many lower ranked colleges, some I honestly have never heard of, so there seem to be plenty on this board who are in the range of ‘normal’ that you speak OP.[/quote]

I think these stats are impressive if they are not the result of tiger parenting. Who of even slightly above average intelligence could not achieve them with 4-5 years of intensive coaching and a lifetime of intellectual enrichment. My kids speak 5 languages just like me. My accomplishment is greater than theirs because they learned two from birth and started the third in preschool. I learned all of mine after the age of 15. The college admissions process is not designed to reveal the layers of embedded privilege that contribute to the accomplishments of most of today's applicants. My father, whose own father could not read, got a perfect score on the math part of the SAT at a public school in the segregated South decades ago. Few of the pampered youth of today would be able to do anything like that.[/quote]

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