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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids all sound NII great. Those GPAs at a Big 3 are incredible and you should all be proud![/quote]

Here’s the issue with Big3 GPAs even 3.8+ … they don’t seem high when you have public school kids getting up to 4.5 — in fact, they seem low especially at the larger state magnets (Berkeley / UCLA / Michigan / UVA / Texas) where it’s impossible not be just a number. The Big3s will tell you that all the admissions teams at the colleges know how rigorous they are and what their grade ranges are but guess what: they really don’t — it’s impossible when reviewing hundreds or thousands of apps that ultimately start looking the same to keep that in mind even if you heard it once or twice in passing.

Parents of Big3 kids need to internalize this, keep it in mind, and move on … [/quote]

All colleges recalculate GPAs so that they’re able to make an apples to apples comparison. The public school student’s inflated GPA will be compared to the (Big 3) private school student’s GPA using the same scale. That’s why Sidwell, GDS, and the Cathedral schools are sending graduates to the aforementioned colleges this year.[/quote]

Well this is why private high school leads to private college and public high school leads to public college. And it’s also why people who went to public college know that the top kids there are no less smart than those at ivys. It’s the top private college kids who really don’t understand the world beyond their own coddled / enabled existences.[/quote]

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