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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I have long wondered this too. All the Ivies and top SLACs have far higher percentages (from 20-50%) of privates school kids matriculating when only 2% of all students in US go to private schools. If it’s true that there are two separate piles for applicants - private and public - that wouldn’t seem to be true. [/quote]

I think it’s more you are competing against applicants from your own school first, and then the field of applicants second.  So if you are the third or fourth best applicant from your school, your chances are very, very low even if on paper you have better stats than 99% of the rest of the field. I doubt very much any college say they are designating 20% of their seat to private school kids and the rest to public school kids, and those kids only compete within their buckets, but I may be wrong.[/quote]

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