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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are kids these days way smarter than kids of our generation? (80s-90s)
Every kid seems to have top scores and all As. Whereas, at my rigorous public high school in the mid-90s, regular bright well-rounded kids with As/Bs but not Einstein-level grades, were going to Northwestern, Dartmouth, UPenn, Wellesley, etc. I had strong but not exceptional grades and got into Vassar. Now it seems in order to get into a T30, you need all As and all APs. Am I missing something here? How is this happening? Did this generation produce geniuses?[/quote]

When you went to college, there were a few dozen or so 1600 SAT scores.  Now there are between 800-1400 perfect scores every year.

Grade inflation is pretty significant too.
A school in Long Island recently had 21 valedictorians who had straight A+ GPAs.  The graduating class is about 300.  More than 5% of the class is a valedictorian.  Multiple valedictorians are pretty common these days.
There are a lot of trash AP classes now.
AP Calc BC is still rigorous as is AP Physics C-EM, AP US History but there are a lot of trash APs.
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There are at most between 300-500 perfect 1600 scores.[/quote]

Really?  Do you have a cite?  I think those might be the numbers from the heavily test optional period during the Pandemic.

I've seen estimates that about 0.07% of students get a perfect score.

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