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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really? Vassar, F&M and Skidmore, Bucknell? Do these seem realistic to people? I had thought those were out of reach for my son, who has a higher gpa and higher scores based on Navisnce.[/quote]

Does your kid go to public school? If so, they probably are out of reach. [/quote]

Why would these be out of reach for a public school kid with those stats but not a private school kid? [/quote]

[b]Covid grade inflation in publics. Private schools weren’t as susceptible. It means lower GPAs from privates can get in where they can’t from public[/b]. [/quote]

Your credible evidence/data for this sweeping generalization?  But what any one person thinks on this subject doesn't matter -- colleges will see the profile for each applicant's school with overall grade distribution, and will thus know to what extent a particular public OR private has grade inflation. [/quote]

Shrug. Get offended if you want, but it’s true that in the last admissions cycle, lower GPAs from privates got in where the same GPA from public didn’t. Colleges looking for rigor know where to look. [/quote]

Again, your empirical data for your assertion?  Plus, it doesn't matter if, in general, private schools suffer less grade inflation.  What matters is the grade distribution in the profile of an individual applicant's high school and how that applicant's GPA falls within it.  The admissions offices don't treat all private and all public high schools the same, for goodness sake -- they know which ones give out As like candy and which ones don't.  If your kids went to a rigorous private school with no grade inflation, well good for you.  But there are plenty of middling privates I would never send my kids to. [/quote]

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