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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So yet another nugget about HB is these kids are not even operating at the level of kids at the home high schools and college admission is probably easier for them as a result.

In the end, in theory people should want their kids well prepared for college but I'm sure plenty of people love that they're getting AP lang and lit on their transcript with an A and meanwhile doing nothing in class.[/quote]

Hold on tiger. who said they are doing nothing in class? and who said college admissions are easier? the kids at HB are less prepared for the AP exams and get lower scores. That hurts them with college admissions, not helps them

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It sounds like they are not doing nearly as much as kids at the other schools in AP classes.

It 100 percent makes college admissions easier.  Kids are compared against their peers at their same school.  HB kids are taking easier classes that are labeled "most rigorous" for their school.   To recap, they are not working as hard and taking fewer challenging classes (since so many fewer are offered at HB to begin with) and then getting into the same schools as kids from the larger high schools.   Compare a UVA admit from HB to a UVA admit from W-L IB and the W-L IB kid is a far more impressive and higher achieving student.   You clearly don't know anything about the college admissions process.[/quote]

While I admit I am not an expert in college admissions, I  don't think it's fair to assume that I don't know anything about it after having gone through it with multiple kids. What are YOUR credentials, PP?

Yes, to an extent students are compared against their peers in their school. I am not sure it's an advantage though for ambitious students to have fewer oppoertunities. How do they stand out amongst their peers when everyone looks the same with the same classes? I guess maybe it works in favor of students who are not motivated and don't want to take the hardest classes. Is that your kid, PP? [/quote]

They can do a variety of extracurricular and volunteering activities that similar students at the neighborhood schools CANT do because they are busy with 2N AP classes, more homework, etc.

It’s the same reason so many private schools are dropping AP; it was just an arms race against themselves, kids are allocated on the most rigorous designation. [/quote]

You’re quite the expert on HB huh even though your own kids don’t go there.

If HB kids do better (do they???) it’s not due to your made up reasons, it’s for the same reason as ATS. Families who self select to an option school are going to be more motivated.

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I’m not the PP either but the way this works is UVA is going to let in some percentage of top kids from each high school.  If the kids at this school (HB) have less rigorous classes (sounds like fact) and fewer options to take rigorous classes (also sounds like fact) they have to do less to get into the same university as compared to other high school students in APS public.  Any of these competitive schools have some level of quotas where they are not taking more than X kids from any one school.  Why so defensive about this?[/quote]

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