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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The pandemic has changed the landscape. I went to a huge public high school in Pennsylvania and have friends who stayed. Their kids are now at those same schools. The school is just mediocre. It’s not terrible, but nothing special, either. It is suburban but not rich Philly suburban.

The pandemic definitely gave more kids a chance to throw their hats in. One friend bragged how her daughter, who “didn’t crack 1300 on her SATs” got into Wash U “but she is really more Dickinson material” (where she also got in). Another friend joked in private, of course, “my loser son is in at Brown. I have no idea how that happened. He sat on his ass this year and a half  playing games on his phone with class on in the background. He has all As for doing nothing. I think he only got in because of this class project where he helped kids from lower income schools learn how to play Minecraft. I am totally not kidding.”

These are anecdotes. I know that. But it still bugs my kid, who went to a school were he still had to work hard for his grades. He looks the same on paper as the Brown kid but the best school mine got in was Vermont. It’s a fine school, but he was shooting higher. [/quote]

Yeah, so that says the system has failed this year. No other way to describe it. Stinks.[/quote]

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