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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Everyone has 4.0 from public.[/b] Find some important ways in which to distinguish yourself.
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False. Demonstrably so.[/quote]

Yes, more accurate to say 20 to 40 percent of class has 4.0, depending on the school.[/quote]

Not at ours (DCPS). 20 kids out of ~500 have a perfect 4.0 unweighted.[/quote]

This is JR. I posted this on the previous page (lest anyone think there are two DCPSs with 500 kids in a class and only ~20 with 4.0s).[/quote]

I have a JR student too and I'm guessing that the 20 kids with perfect 4.0 unweighted also have top rigor....these are high-flyers.  It is not difficult to fall into the 3.5-3.99 range (where 42 percent of student are) but there's a HUGE difference between a 3.99 (essentially, all As and one A- in four years of high school) and a 3.5 (more A-s than As or a mix of As, A-, and a B+s).

To the larger point, there is a huge amount of grade inflation due to the revision and make-up policies and because only final grades go on the transcripts (and there's more grade inflation in how they average the four terms to get there.)  But at least DCPS does assign different points for A vs A- (4.0 vs 3.7) and on down the line (B+, B, and B- are 3.3, 3.0, and 2.7, respectively).[/quote]

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