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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cringe whenever I see the term big three on here. I lived in Beverly Hills for years and even in Los Angeles we never use terms like this. I also lived in Manhattan, and the same goes for New York. Obviously, these cities have prestigious schools and people simply knew which were the best schools.  Quite frankly, hearing a term like “big 3” we’ll it sounds very small town an unsophisticated.[/quote]

Agreed.  Plus I really don’t think it’s necessary for Big 3 parents to remind the world and themselves that their grading scales are different.  If you’re paying $50k for high school and are obsessed with prestige and college admissions, trust me - you don’t need to go to DCUM to learn your school’s grading scale and how it differs from publics.

Bottom line, there is rarely if ever any reason to specify that your kid goes to a Big 3.  Except to get off on it, that is. [/quote]

First - Big 3 is a DCUM created term and people use it for shorthand. Nobody would ever use this in real life.
Second - Those parents aren't writing on DCUM to remind other parents they are at a Big 3 - they are writing to seek OTHER Big 3 families to weigh in so they can have something comparable to their own experience.

If FCPS and MCPS had meaningfully different grading scales and methods for calculating GPA, nobody would be upset if a FCPS parent identified themselves as being FCPS when asking others to weigh in on their child's GPA regarding chances on a college acceptance. 
 [/quote]You still haven’t addressed the topic! What are the admissions results of the BIG 3?[/quote]

OP here.  That is NOT the topic.  The topic was doesn’t it seem like every other post on the college forum is by a parent who says their kid goes to a “Big 3”?  And now I realize what’s really going on:  it’s every other poster who IDENTIFIES their kid’s school as being a Big 3 parent.  Most posters don’t identify their kid’s school at all, because they see no reason to, w[b]hile Big 3 parents can’t help themselves.  They live and breathe this stuff.[/b]

Thanks to the PPs who helped me make sense of this. [/quote]

As noted above - I only mention Big 3 if answering or asking a question where it is relevant to the topic (ie it's comparing apples and oranges when some posters are at a school without weighted GPA and no APs and others are a public with both). Maybe others out themselves more frequently for their own egos - I don't.[/quote]

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