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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Following.  Kid is at Sidwell.  I’d celebrate kid’s 3.8(uw) all day over a 4.54(w) from Moco or any local public except TJ to demonstrate the actual value-add of HS .... but this does not help at all when top schools over-value those 4.54s.

How does Michigan or UCLA not know that so many 4.7s are the product of unlimited test retakes, super scoring in HS, creatively averaged quarter grades to blur achievement gaps, etc?

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I notice private school parents have all these myths about public school grading.  At least in our FCPS schools, the quarter grades are percentages calculated like anything else, there aren't test re-takes unless you fail and you are then limited to a C on the retake even if you score 100 percent.  The retake policy is to prevent kids from failing/dropping out of school, not to help those who are gunning for selective schools.  Super-scoring is a word for SATs that is open to all private and public schools at the college that accept it.  The weighting policy on APs is transparent, reported on school profiles and colleges rescore according to their preferences.  Personally I think private schools started dropping APs when parents noticed their kids weren't getting higher exam scores than public school kids and started questioning the value.  I went to private schools, I think they offer a great education, but you're really confused if you think public schools have some big advantage in 
college admissions.  Of course you're free to stop paying gazillionK a year and send your kid to one.[/quote]

+1    Proud parent of an MCPS student with a 5 on the AP calc exam.     (took all tests once, private school pp)[/quote]
I’m not the previous private school poster, but grading at private is definitely harder. Dd spent half of high school in MCPS, and half private. In MCPS kids with 89.5 and kids with 99.5 get the same grade on their report cards. That doesn’t happen at private school.[/quote]

Not relevant at all.   Grades are always evaluated in context, and no matter what school you go to someone with over a 1500 on the SAT who isn’t at or near the top of the class is going to scratch some heads - except maybe at TJ because everybody has over a 1500.  [/quote]

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