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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is a high proportion of VA public school parents. So many threads cite Va state colleges as either the be all end all (read: UVA) or they name Va state schools as their kid’s safeties. [/quote]

Yea that’s true.  Yet whenever there’s a thread on that somebody invariably jumps in and says “well, at our Big 3 . . .”

Nauseating.  [/quote]

You seem oddly triggered by this.  
If someone mentions a Big3, 90% of the time it's in the context of the grading scale being deflated.  When the rest of the DCUM world is chatting about 4.0--4.7 GPAs and your kid is at the top of their class with a 3.8 it's confusing
and it usually takes people a post to get this ironed out in their head.  The schools themselves aren't transparent about it  [/quote]

Isn't that most private schools though? Why not just say private school instead of Big 3? [/quote]

Not the PP - but not all private schools have the grade deflation of the Big 3 (which personally I think extends to more of a Big 6ish).  Some private schools still have AP and some also weight GPAs[/quote]

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