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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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It’s hilarious that you keep telling us about your lazy kid who coasted through school, and you think the rest of us are supposed to see that as an indictment of JR rather than your child and your parenting. LOL, truly.[/quote]

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