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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rubric says grades count for 10 points, so the 4.0 kids got 10 of 10. I think 3.8 was worth 8. The recs are worth 15 points each, total of 30. [b]So if a 4.0 kid lost 1 point from each teacher[/b] they now have the same score as a 3.8 with full marks from recs [/quote]

The teacher above said that they did not assign points. 
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So a SWW staff member read each rec and assigned a point value to the phrases?
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"This kid is great".  Hmm.  Let's give that one a 9/10.   What about "this kid has potential".  Hmm.  Definite 8/10.  Or maybe 9/10.  "this kid has REAL potential."  Now that is a 10/10.  :roll:   [/quote]

Sure, we can nitpick this, but GPAs are also largely based on subjective grading. Math tests or multiple choice tests are more straight forward, but there is subjectivity in pretty much every grade a kid gets. Rubrics don’t make for clear cut grading. And throw in any kind of bias, and you’ve got even more problematic subjectivity. So, sure, maybe they are making subjective decisions, but that’s no different from school, every day.[/quote]

Ok, this is a massive stretch---beyond massive.  GPAs are based on hundreds of assignments accumulated over years.  This is based on someone turning a few lines of text ([b]written by a third party[/b]) into a numeric value. 
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The point is that it’s all subjective. So it’s not a stretch. The recs are given by [b]teachers chosen by parents and students to evaluate the kid.[/b] The application school takes the rec into account. It’s not a gotcha system. [/quote]

There was no "choosing."  It was the math and ELA teacher.  Period. 
Sure, you could use the 7th grade teachers but my child's are longer with DCPS. 
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