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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg - many reasons I sent my kids to a big 3 (mostly to learn to write) but seriously who they hang around was zero on the list!

Meanwhile as posters have pointed out GDS outcomes looked great for last year as did NCS.[b] Is there a noticeable drop for class of 2023 and if so does anyone know why?[/b] [/quote]

The word at the schools among senior parents is that there was a big drop between 2022 and 2023.

Last year (2022) a lot of kids got crappy ED results but top 30 admits came through in the RD round.  This year, many top students are left with only their safety (ranked 50+ or 75+) schools after the RD round.

I think what happened is that:
-volume of applications went up yet again--for example, internationals are back applying in full post-Covid. 
-institutional priorities continued to favor first gen and/or URM kids
-the class (2023) grads had their main two years of high school (10th and 11th) during Covid grading and it was fully virtual in many publics.  This means [b]massive grade inflation because many of this districts had grade "basements" of a B. [/b] Kids got As for simply "logging on" across the board in massive districts like DCPS and huge California schools districts.  [/quote]

Even if true, admissions officers would know about it and factor it into their decisions. The top schools all have admissions reps (not just the alumni interviewers) who know each school and how they grade. To the extent this is true, it has already been factored in to admissions decisions.[/quote]

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