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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll play lowest SAT- I think posted 1020 540 English 480 Math…. Graduated 1991. I was in top 20 percent of my class GPA-wise

Accepted UMD NYU VT PSU Pitt
Rejected Georgetown

Attended one of the state schools due to cost.  Never in a million years would I have been accepted to any of these schools today.[/quote]

SINce 1991, there’s been a huge grade and standardized score inflations.

I remember about 7 yrs ago, one of my coworkers said her niece is on scholarship with a 4.0 gpa.  Her plan was to become a medical doctor.  In the old days, 4.0 meant straight As and probably the valedictorian of the HS. When my own kid applied to colleges, I learned 4.0 means 70th percentile. The niece has since graduated and now works at the doctors office as a receptionist answering phones. [/quote]

Your bitterness has made you make a very unpleasant and distasteful post, recounting a story of a friend in a pejorative way and insulting a person who does honest work without all the details.  You should be ashamed.

Yes there are many more high-performing kids than before.  The culture seems to have changed to value academic performance more.  Is that a bad thing?

Or are you suggesting that highschool and standardized tests are easier now than they were in 1991?  Please provide data to support that.[/quote]

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