Reply to "Not a Meritocracy"

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to ""Not a Meritocracy""

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok.  Everyone is disappointed when their hard working student does not get into a desired college.   That is true across the board.[/quote]
Yes, but private school parents seem to be blaming the private school, as if paying for the $$ private school should mean they should get special treatment.[/quote]

I have no dog in this fight but it seems the position of the private schools is that their kids with lower GPAs are being evaluated more harshly. Like the appropriate adjustments are not being made for the rigor of the grading. [/quote]

This. My kid has been in public and private. Public school was not rigorous (even though it’s one of the “top area public schools). My kid’s gpa would be much higher in public. Maybe colleges were never really distinguishing between the rigor of schools or mandatory SATs disguised this.[/quote]

The public school applicants have AP scores to validate their grades. If we're talking about public school kids applying to the type of schools the OP think he kid deserves to attend, you are talking about a lot of 4s and 5s in classes with curriculums that are supposed to be consistent across all schools offering the course. [/quote]

Alll I know is everytime my kid's public school Blair goes up against these big 3 privates in academics they destroy them.[/quote]

The best academic schools in metro DC aren't the NCS/Sidwell/GDS, they are Blair, TJ and AOS. [/quote]

Maybe for STEM but not for Humanities[/quote]

Definitely for STEM (it really isn't even a comparison) and humanities are going to be closer than the privates are comfortable with.[/quote]

100% not true - from a parent who's had a kid at one of those public high schools and another at a Big 3. My Big 3 kid received a humanities education that was far superior to the public school kid.

This is a weird thread. But in my experience there are parents at both top publics and top privates who don't understand how much the college admissions landscape has changed. This area has a high concentration of HYPS+ grads and they remember how their 4.0GPA/99percentile SAT got them into the tippy-top colleges so why isn't their equally accomplished kid getting the same treatment? That's what's going on here.[/quote]

A TJ student can take multiple AP classes in any humanity they choose to. The classes are there for the kids who want them. [/quote]

It's not about the availability of AP classes. It's about the quality of the teaching. The Big 3 teachers all or almost all have PhDs, the school has more resources for things like field trips and outside speakers, and the class sizes are much smaller so the teacher can spend much more time with individual students and their work. [/quote]
Sure, but then don't complain if your kid doesn't get the kind of college admissions you were expecting after shelling out that much money in K-12.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics