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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP You should be worried if your kid is shooting for Ivy's/Stanford/Duke/MIT and even highly selective state schools.

We are at another big 3 and the party line is "All the colleges know how hard our school is and that no one gets all A's" Our kid took the most rigorous classes and had a similar GPA- bit higher and a 1540 SAT plus good ec's etc etc. Guess what - Rejected early at Ivy. Friend with similar stats rejected at Michigan. I know a dozen examples. Yes alums, athletes and URM are still getting in - but the regular "smart" kids who don't have the 4.0 Plus because our schools don't weight and now we don't have AP's are getting shut out.

Things are changing the colleges  want the 4.8's and don't care that our schools don't give out 4.0's easily And our schools are too arrogant to acknowledge it. If this continues to play out with lackluster admissions something will hopefully change. Too Late for my kid.[/quote]

Your kid would have been rejected whether there was grade deflation or not. You don't get it. The only Big 3 kids the T20 want are hooked kids.[/quote]

PP here I do get it - this may be true now but the schools need to acknowledge and deal with this reality and they do not. [b]The world has changed and our Big 3 still acts like if you are just a great student you have a shot at top 10-15 schools and its utter BS.[/b] The admissions counselors  keep a poker face and are not honest or forthcoming with their advice. But I am sorry the grade deflation does not help.[/quote]

It's not Sidwell's fault!!!

The colleges DON'T WANT YOUR SMART KID unless he/she COMES WITH A HOOK---a big donation, athletic skill or racial diversity.  That has nothing to do with Sidwell and neither can they change it.

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I think they should be upfront from the beginning. Then kids aren’t killing themselves with the highest math or sweating an A- because they know it doesn’t matter for college admissions anyway. Take the classes that are interesting and do your best, and you’re not throwing Harvard out the window because it was never realistic to begin with. [/quote]

What do you mean "they need to be upfront from the beginning"????

No one from Sidwell has ever represented that matriculating there will impact your path to a college. What they promise is a rigorous Quaker based College Prep education. Period.  Fact is, most of the kids who graduate from there go on to very successful experiences in college and productive and/or fulfilling careers or avocations. No one has ever claimed that going to Sidwell, or a school like Sidwell does anything for chances to any given college.[/quote]

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