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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just find this so, so odd.  The "Big 3" are supposed to be elite high schools, above the fray socially and academically, among the best in the country, and with outstanding guidance departments and college placement.

Yet, here are parents on an anonymous board fishing for information on where their kids' GPAs place them among their classmates and what colleges they can expect to get into.  I have to wonder if this ever goes on at, say, the elite boarding schools or top NYC privates.  I'll bet it doesn't, certainly not to this extent, and it makes me wonder -- just how special is the Big 3, really, if the families there act like this?       [/quote]

I don’t think wanting to put a grades in context is crazy parent behavior. I don’t want to steer my kid toward a goal he has no chance of reaching; and I don’t want to steer them away from a goal because I mistakenly thought a 3.8 gpa (or whatever) was too low. [/quote]

look at the common data sets of schools your kid is interested in, and see the GPA and standardized test scores at the 25% and 75% percentaile and that will tell you what you need to know.[/quote]

The whole point of this thread is that the gpa at these schools isn’t comparable to the larger data set. [/quote]

Not true. The colleges will evaluate them on their own merits, but it give a sense of the facts. You cannot just assume that if you kid is a 3.5 at STA that they would be a 4.3 at MCPS.[/quote]

Actually, yes you can[/quote]

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