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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percentage of kids at public schools in the DMV area graduate with a 4.0? I keep hearing that there is grade inflation at public schools, but it's not the case in our school. Ours has 5% of kids with 4.0.

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People are making sh¡t up. It’s like an urban legend at this point. [/quote]

It’s an excuse people use to explain to themselves how a public school student was admitted to a college that rejected a private school student. 
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Here are the receipts. Yorktown gives a 4.0 for any A. And inexplicably a 3.5 for a B+ (this is all unweighted, they also give extra points for honors etc). It should be a 3.3 for a B+. And Churchill has 62% of the class with a 4.01 or higher.

https://yhs.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2022/09/School-Profle-2022-23.pdf

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/churchillhs/uploadedfiles/careercenter/class20of20202020final20profile.pdf

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The scale is different.  Because of the bump for honors and AP classes.  But if you think admissions don’t k wi how to read a Yorktown transcript, I got nothing for you.  There is a way to distinguish between a Yorktown kid who has all A’s in a ton of AP classes and one that does not.  There are not many kids who get all A’s in all AP classes coming out of the top publics.  It just doesn’t happen.  And the myth that everyone can retake a test to get an A - also BS.  Retest policy means you can bring your score up in FCPS to an 80% max.  You are retesting, you are not getting an A.  The policy is in place to help kids in danger of failing.  Not competing with your private school kid for Harvard.  [/quote]

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