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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is great deflation at private schools.  The defenders of the practice say that it is intellectually honest and ultimately college admissions recognize and even reward such rigor.  If you are talking about an Ivy or school that can actually spend quality time to absorb an application and engage in a "holistic" process (e.g., SLACs), I agree.  The problem arises for students who desire to attend large state universities.  The OOS slots are limited in the first place.  They are flooded by a sea of applicants.  Admissions needs some way to stem the tide, and they take a very black and white approach to culling the herd -- based on GPA and class rank.  In normal times, a Big 3 kid who was not in the top ten percent and with a GPA of 3.5 (i.e., the vast majority of the class) had a fighting chance because he/she often had a high standardized test score to balance out the picture.  Without these scores now, most 3.5 applicants are quickly tossed aside.

It will be a brutal year for Big 3 college admissions.[/quote]

Parents at big 3 schools definitely don’t realize how important it is to stick to colleges and universities that have developed a relationship with the high school counselor. Only those schools will give these applications the attention to overcome the disparities in gpa between public and private. [b]True grade deflation is not a rigor practice. Depressing grades is as manipulative and deceptive as grade inflation.[/quote][/b]

Please speak to the manipulative and deceptive nature of depressing grades...[/quote]

Bumping this. Just what do you mean by that, PP ?[/quote]

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