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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks and yeah I have looked at the Instagram I just don’t know what grades the kids have to go to ivies (not my kids goal) vs UMD, etc. [/quote]
My 3.5 GPA kid at a DCPS applied/accepted at Liberal Arts Schools that are mid-tier (example - Kenyon, Macalester, Occidental) [/quote]

These are the same schools for a 3.5 (class average) from NCS or Sidwell. Although those kids will work about 5 times (more?) as hard for the same GPA.  To begin with, they will have needed a 4.0 from Deal (and top extracurriculars) to even get into NCS/Sidwell, then they will have worked exceedingly hard for 4 years---no late work ever (or it's a zero), no retakes, long (10 and 20 page) papers that are graded like they're in an upper level college course, 3 hours of homework a night, 1500+ SAT, multiple 5s on APs).  But then they'll end up in the same schools as a JR kid who completely phones in high school and gets a 3.5.

It's interesting.  Or something.  :cry:  :roll: I've had kids at both and we're deliberating what to do with kid 3. [/quote]

Your kids aren’t entitled to anything because you paid $70k a year for HS. Also, that’s really $hitty to say that kids are dialing it in at that level. If that was the case everyone would have a 4.4w and be looking at top-25 schools. This isn’t an arms race. If you don’t like JR’s college placement that’s on you. [/quote]

Chill out.  I speak from experience.  My JR (then known as Wilson) kid completely dialed it in for a 3.5.  It wasn't difficult in the least to get these grades and from my experience it's only gotten easier since.  Work can be turned in any time without any grade ding, retakes, a grading system that rounds up an A- quarter and a B+ quarter to an A-, etc) All these things makes it almost impossible to not succeed unless you're actually not doing the work.  
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Just because your kid could, and did, dial it in for those grades doesn't mean that every kid does. I have two kids with different personalities, different capabilities, with different outcomes, so I would never presume one of those kids was representative of the entire student body. [/quote]

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