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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected. [/quote]

I think it has more to do with test optional.  Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt.  I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.[/quote]

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.[/quote]

The education is great.  Full stop.  But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances.  Full stop.[/quote]

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools. [/quote]

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, [b]only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90.  [/b]People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.[/quote]

I don't know what the answer is here or if anything needs to change ( weighted GPA for AP/ Honors, for example) but ZERO chance Cathedral schools EVER inflate grades. That will NEVER happen.

What is interesting though is the above STAT .

I have seen that born out in Naviance. Very few kids with an average above a 90 and about 1 student in the class/ 90 kids with an average above a 96

Yet, 1/3 of the same graduating class achieve NMSF or C[b]ommended, which I think means a 1450 or higher[/b] ?

Pretty reflective of the high academic standards and rigor at a school where you can be in top 1-3% of SAT test results out of 2.5 Million Nationally and still  only get a B + at NCS/STA because that is just what the teachers are used to in terms of quality of writing, level of work.[/quote]
Commended is 1380, and it is the PSAT not the SAT[/quote]

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