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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Invariably posters who mention scores or gpas *without* providing an actual number get asked for the number anyway. Might as well mention it to start with. It pretty true for most posts here actually.

OP: Did your kid have a job between 11th and 12th?
P1: Yes
P2 and/or OP: What job, P1? 
P1: An internship at a company in the field they are interested in. 
P-whatever and/or OP: Was it a paid internship, P1?

P1 should have just said “Yes, my kid has a paid internship at a company in the field they are interested in” in the first place, even though the OP of this thread apparently would see that as bragging extra info. [/quote]

Yes! The reply that OP considers "bragging" is so much more informative and potentially helpful. Why the heck would anyone reply "yes" to Did your kid have a summer job? It is implied that more details are requested.

Even for the first SAT question, giving the score is informative because it gives people an idea of what scores kids are ultimately happy with, and how many tries it took to get to that point. [/quote]

How is that helpful with the SAT? If someone said, my kid took it once and got a 1470, how does that help?

- do you know what schools the kid applied to, got into, got rejected from?

- do you know if the kid went TO?

- do you know if the kid's SAT had any impact on acceptance/rejection?

- do you know if the kid had a hook?

- do you know if the score is high, avg or low for the kid's school/area?

- do you know if the kid mentioned something else in the app to explain something related to the score?

No...you literally get no useful information from this question and those answers. That's different than:

What is the lowest SAT score you know of from a kid admitted to ABC college and what were the other stats?

That is helpful but a different question. Simply stating the score is not helpful at all in the context of what someone else could glean from that, when simply asked something like how many times did your kid take the SAT?[/quote]

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