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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What is missing from these posts is that there was significant grade inflation for the class of 2022 with their junior year online.[/b]  Junior year is where the rubber meets the road and kids can do well in 5-6 APs or they don't.  If everyone did well there is nothing to distinguish someone who got a 4.0 because of online and cheating vs. hard work and intelligence.  Now put all these kids with similar GPAs together, with or without tests, and the highest applicant numbers in history and this is what happens.  I hope it works itself out for next year![/quote]

YES!

I don't even have a dog in this fight but am a teacher.  Let's say in a normal year 10% of kids got straight As.  Last year it was like 70% at our school. We were told to be super lenient.  The district I teach in (DCPS) did not even give out grades lower than a B.  So kids who did the work (in any way, shape or form) got As.  The rest (who did nothing) got Bs. 
Extrapolate this to an entire district of kids and you have a lot of A students.  Thousands.[/quote]

I wonder if universities looked more closely at AP scores if students submitted them. If you got an A in an AP course but a 2 on related the AP exam, maybe that said something? [/quote]

DP: Normally, I would say yes, but this year's class only reports last two years of AP scores by admission time, and many schools didn't get through the AP material last year (not the kid's fault), so you can get an A on the material covered in class, but bomb the stuff your teacher didn't get to, and you had to self-study. Also, the AP testing format was on line for some but not others, and rather a mess. Not as useful as it usually is, and not apples to apples across schools for this class.[/quote]

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