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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a theory.

The Honors For All, AP for all at Wilson could be affecting their acceptances to highly competitive colleges. How?  A little one-pager called a School Profile. When your student submits an application and the school needs to send along a transcript, the guidance department includes this one-pager that briefly describes the academic program, grading policies and most difficult classes offered in each department.

The college admissions officer uses this document as context as they score your kid’s application.  They want to see that the applicant was academically ambitious and challenged themselves with difficult classes.  They prefer Bs in honors classes to As in regular classes. They won’t penalize a student for not taking APs if they aren’t offered at the sending high school—which they know from this one-pager.

I imagine Wilson’s one pager explains their Honors for all/AP for all situation and this makes it hard for a student to show they have challenged themselves beyond their classmates.  The application is set aside or the reviewer is not able to award points for that category.

Somebody should get a hold of Wilson’s School Profile they send with transcripts and see what it says

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This is interesting.  The regional admissions reps at elite colleges will know this ins and outs of Wilson's academics.  It's their job to keep up on these things.  Wilson basically dumbed down the curriculum (or at least the perception is that they did) and more importantly, made kids 
indistinguishable from each other.  Also, grading in 19-20 and 20-21 was really inflated.  19-20 had those two quarters where every assignment was extra credit and kids ended up with 300% in some classes and 20-21 had no grades lower than a B.   All of this is on the radar of admissions
officers.  They can't distinguish between a really top student and a student who just sailed through on pandemic grading so they probably just passed on the whole situation. 
I bet there is really something to this because Walls kids had excellent admissions results this year.  I think colleges WANT to take smart DCPS kids but they're skittish about taking kids who they can't tell apart from one another.  Walls kids are a safer bet for an admissions officer because they were screened on admission. [/quote]

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