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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grading means sorting and ranking the group before you. If everyone gets an A that is not grading. It's fake.[/quote]

If you are teaching the einsteins and newtons of the age, the cream of the crop naturally rise to the top. [/quote]

Meh, not everyone admitted is an Einstein or Newton. Please. What an ego![/quote]

DP. Agree that was pretty inflated,  but the kids getting into these schools are by and large intensely academic, applying with high GPAs and strings of APs. It's not surprising that the earn mostly As in college. [/quote]

As was stated in the Yale thread on this same topic, getting an A in high school, particularly from a grade-inflating high school, does not guarantee that you will succeed in real college level course work, particularly course work that is supposed to be superior to all other course work. Basically you are arguing that if a kid graduates high school with all As, it is guaranteed that they will get all As in college, so grade inflation can't exist or doesn't matter, as these folks, purely by virtue of their admission to the institution, should be assumed to know it all.

Also, if these schools are supposed to the the cream of the crop, then even the best high school graduates should struggle to to do well there. If everyone can get an A, the test isn't challenging enough. [/quote]

Why should they struggle? Why shouldn't everyone who submits top notch work earn an A? Your reasoning makes no sense.

You ignore that these kids also have relevant honors, great essays/recs, and AP scores to support. They are high achievers.  It is no surprise that they are earning high grades.[/quote]

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