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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Just stop. What evidence (besides comments on DCUM) do you have that public schools inflate grades and private schools deflate grades?
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Just stop.  Are you serious? Let's start with MoCo.  In March 2020, the "do no harm" policy required students to earn at least one grade higher than they did the previous quarter.  So if you got a B, you got an A.  That's grade inflation.  How many posters on here with kids at Wilson have said they and all their kids friends now have averages in the high 90s, courtesy of the covid special grading policies.  [b]In public schools, you get a full point bump for AP classes[/b].  Again, grade inflation.  None of that exists at many of the private schools in this area.[/quote]

In MCPS you get a full point bump for AP [b]and[/b] honors, and honors is basically on-level.  I'd say 30-40% of the kids had a 4.4 or above GPA.[/quote]

And the colleges are well aware of the grading scales so what’s your point?  As pps have pointed out, [b]colleges are not comparing private school kids to public school kids[/b].  But if it makes you feel better to think that’s why your kids are not getting in, have at it.  [/quote]

This has been said multiple times in this thread and in others.  Is there any evidence that this is the case?  Do colleges really separate them into two completely separate piles that each have their own number of admits and never compare them against each other? That doesn't make any sense to me.[/quote]

Of course they are technically comparing them, but yes, they do have regional reps who know each school. They know a 3.0 at Potomac is comparable to a 4.0 or even higher at Langley. They have different course levels, different grading scales. And fortunately, most schools know this. Some do not--or at least don't take the time to evaluate on that basis, which does leave the private kids at a disadvantage. Examples of those are typically the popular state flagships: Wisconsin, Penn State, Georgia, Auburn, UMD. Some do have closer reps and know how to evaluate private against public: UVA, Michigan. [/quote]

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