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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m probably thought of as a tiger mom.  Expected my kids to get all As, play an instrument, etc., but that’s because they seemed easily capable of that. They did great in high school.  We are also very close.  DD is at a T25 getting lots of Bs, and I don’t love it, to be honest, but she’s happy and excelling at her intellectual extracurricular, so it’s fine.   Younger kid is brilliant.  And happy.  We’ll see what happens to him. [/quote]

To what do you attribute the differences in grades in high school and college?  Does your DD go to a grade deflating college or do you think that high school was easier?  Would you have preferred that your DD went to a not T25 but got all As or do you not care anymore?[/quote]

I attribute the grades in high school to MCPS grade inflation.  She didn’t have to work that hard for them.  She’s very happy at her school and the name recognition has given her a lot of confidence.  I don’t think it’s grade deflating. She’s not working all that hard for her 3.5 GPA, as far as I can tell, and that would disappoint me except that she works extremely hard at her activity and is blossoming in it, intellectually and leadership-wise, so it’s understandable.  All in all, I think she’s making choices and figuring things out, and I’m really proud of her.  No, I don’t think she should have gone to a lower-ranked school to get better grades.  Maybe her grades would have been the same there.  Regardless, I long ago decided to make choices for what I thought was the best learning experience for my kid at the time, not a strategic decision about what would help for the next step.  [/quote]

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