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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having gone through this process, I would much rather be a college applicant with a 4.5 GPA from Gonzaga/Landon/Bullis than a 88/89 GPA from St. Albans.

No, top grades are not sufficient for elite college admissions, but they are necessary. Almost no one gets into the Ivies without a near-perfect GPA, I don't care what fancy private school you attended.

The DC privates could solve this issue by simply changing the final transcript they send to colleges. We all know that a STA/NCS/Sidwell "B" is equal to a public school "A", so just alter the transcript to say that.

Just help the kids out when applying to college. Grades are just arbitrary, fake numbers anyways.[/quote]

Agree with this. Do not expect anyone to be sorry for us private school parents. But when I signed my kids up I had no idea that the colleges would really not account for the rigor of the school. Our Big three is not reacting to the changing landscape, sticking by their guns that "everyone" knows how great/hard our school is but when so see the drop in admissions to top schools from all the Big 3 schools you see this is not true.  I feel bad for the kids. My kids are in their last two years if I had known in 9th grade what I know now I would have opted for public.[/quote]

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