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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in his last year with GPA of 4.15. I think he has taken every AP offered. Not sure who decided if he should take them. He is taking 4 right now.
They seem to give grades away there as far as I know. He is a pleasant kid and I think he gets a few points just for that.
He will be attending Nova next year. He promised to do his homework at Nova, because we paying for it.
I really don't care if he learned anything or not. He has the ability to do well in college. He knows chilling and childhood is over.[/quote]

If they were giving away grades you would expect to see lots of kids getting A in the AP classes and then 3 on the exam. [/quote]

This happens all the time. My kid has tons of friends who received 2d and 3s on all APs. [/quote]

JR has a 65% pass rate on AP tests defined as a 3 or above.
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So, yes, they give out grades like candy at Halloween and the AP results don't match.[/quote]

As a PP pointed out, the pass rate is 73% which is a much, much higher pass rate than application schools like Banneker and McKinley Tech and 2nd in DC only to Walls.

[b]Also, I think probably 35%+ of kids taking AP classes earn less than an A in the class.[/b]  [/quote]

Only 5% of students graduate JR with an unweighted 4.0 (according to the 23-24 school profile; I haven’t seen the 24-25 profile), so the idea that APs = easy As doesn’t align with that datapoint.[/quote]

Well, that means more kids at JR have straight As than there are students at my kid's high school, where only 4 students had a 4.0.[/quote]

Considering an elite private school like Harvard Westlake has 40%+ of its graduating class touting an UW 4.0...seems like JR's 4.3% is quite far from grade inflation.

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Where are you finding this 40% of HW graduating with an UW 4.0?
I can't find this stat anywhere. 
And honestly, if it's true, it makes sense.  They have a 9th grade admissions rate of <10%. They had 34 National Merit semifinalists last year.  I would hope they would structure their coursework so a decent percentage of these kids can get As. 
In comparison at Jackson Reed you have all these kids getting As and ONE National Merit Semifinalist.  That is called grade inflation.  [/quote]

Well, considering Sidwell, GDS, STA et al have nowhere near a 40% UW 4.0 (I think they have less than 5% as well) yet a school like Sidwell actually has a higher median SAT score compared to Harvard Westlake...sorry, this is rampant grade inflation at Harvard Westlake.  I am sure parents at the DMV privates wish their schools graded similarly, that's for sure.

It's absurd to claim an urban public school with only 4.3% of the kids having an UW 4.0 is grade inflation.  [/quote]

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