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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids in high school right now. The oldest is at a top private and the youngest opted for Jackson-Reed. I say they are roughly equal in intelligence, but the private school kid works much harder and has more work. However, the private school kid has managed to pull a 3.8 GPA compared to the J-R sibling with a 4.4 GPA.

According to Naviance, the private school kid has almost no shot at a T10 admission and MAYBE a chance at Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, WashU if they apply ED1. He has good UChicago chances, but he doesn't want to go there. The J-R kid is right on target for Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc. And what's more interesting, is that there are &lt;10 applicants to the absolute top colleges each from J-R every year compared to like 1/2 of the private school kids gunning for the T10.

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What’s the JR students unweighted GPA? That 4.4 is meaningless. JR sends a very small percentage of its students to Ivy+ each year.

Btw, at my child’s Big 3, a &gt;3.80 GPA puts you into play at EVERY school, [b]and students are getting into UChicago with a 3.5 GPA. [/b]

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Fiction.

— Big 3 parent[/quote]

np here - UChicago LOVES full pay kids from top DC privates.

OP, I don't think you understand this process. 4.4 GPA is weighted. That's not that high for a weighted GPA. To get into Stanford etc from a public school in the mid Atlantic, the gpa needs to be a 4.0 or 3.98 unweighted and the weighted GPA more like 4.8. 4.4 weighted at JR is not that impressive.

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You have no ideas how each school across the country weights things, or doesn’t, so that is not true about 4.8! Also gpa is only one part of the app at top schools. 
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I know how JR weighs things, and 4.4 W at JR is less impressive than 3.8 UW at Sidwell.[/quote]

But then you went on to make sweeping statements about “public schools in the mid Atlantic.” Which is absurd. Weighted GPAs are not even comparable between MCPS and FCPS (because MCPS gives more of a bump for honors).[/quote]

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