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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac.  This happens too often. [/quote]

Cornell took a lot of JR kids this year.

It will be interesting to see how the JR kids do in general at college (not specifically this cohort but the grade at large). there are some true rockstars but also lots of kids who got straight As for not doing much of anything. they were the benefactors of Covid grading (no grades given less than a B for kids who turned in anything during those 18 months) and those standards have not really returned to normal since. grades remain crazily inflated.  This mostly just hurts the high achievers at JR because the pool of top students is diluted with kids who don't belong there. It will be interesting to see if their performance at college impacts future admissions. 
Signed, JR and private school parent [/quote]

Oh please - we can all say the same about our private school and covid and the insane amount of outside "help" these kids got from parents and tutors. [b]In my son's class at Sidwell, every project done is part parent's effort[/b]. Wonder if these kids are brining their parents to college.  We refuse to play that game and complained once to teachers and they said they can't stop it but the do know it happens. [/quote]

This is interesting. We are Sidwell parents and we have never participated in our child's work. We don't even know or see what they do. The go to school, they get their grades, we see no homework, no written work (not even AFTER), no tests - EVER.
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NP. Unclear if you’re in upper school yet but my PhD IMF coworker basically relived high school with his two sFS kids, who did very well there.  
But he did so much of their math and science and then taught them it, it was the office joke. 
The dumber thing was all the sfs peer parents were in awe that the older kid “never had any tutors” like everyone else did.

FYI the tutoring was because too much work was assigned and the student was responsible for considerably more material than was ever covered in class.

And fyi, one went Ivy for ugrad and grad; did very well. Other went T25 
Dad was bored out of his mind then and played more iMf racquetball at lunch. [/quote]

I’m the PP and our child was only there for HS and was in top rigor courses working independently with no parent or tutor involvement. Agreed that self learning was required for those courses and lots of work. [/quote]

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