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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone wants their kid to be exceptional. Most aren't. High schools have relented to  parents and made grades meaningless due to this pressure; take a look at MCPS, where most kids who show up for class have 4.0+ GPAs. They mean almost nothing. The SAT is a highly accurate, hard-to-fake indicator of underlying G (general intelligence), geared towards a 17-year old brain. For those who complain about test prep, there's a fairly simple response: Only motivated kids actually do the preparation, and the preparation usually gets you a few percentage points out on the normal curve. A 1300 simply will not become a 1500. One more point; you do not want your 4.3 GPA / 1300 SAT kid at a place like UChicago. They will fail out and be miserable. There's a reason these tests exist, it's not just to make you feel bad.[/quote]
My dd attends an MCPS high school and a 4.0 is rare. Plenty of kids barely scraping by. There are no retakes in her AP classes so the thinking that MCPS is handing out As is simply not true. My dd is considered a high achiever and she has a couple Bs to show for it.[/quote]

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