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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD came home today and told me that her teacher told her that grade inflation is really rampant in MCPS and that he is told to grade really leniently and that it is really hard for someone to fail. He says that it is so bad that colleges will flag an application once they see it is from MCPS and [b]make sure to look deeper into what classes they took to see how rigorous it is[/b] to make sure they really deserved that 4.0 gpa. Not sure how true this is, has anyone else heard about this?[/quote]

Competitive colleges have always done this, and do it for all schools and all school districts.

It's true that MCPS makes it difficult for top students to differentiate themselves (if everyone has a 4.0, it's hard to set yourself apart from the crowd).  But colleges always take a close look at course rigor--in fact, at info sessions, they'll tell you that course rigor (APs over honors over regular courses) is more important to them than GPA.  That is probably even more true in MCPS, where so many kids have 4.0s or close-to-4.0s.

This also means that 'weighted GPA' is irrelevant in MCPS.  AP courses are much harder than Honors, and get the same GPA bump.[/quote]Most colleges reweight grades to give APs a larger grade bump than honors[/quote]

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