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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]

Well, we had to pass everyone for the last two years even when they didn't attend school (online or in person). My DS worked his ass off for his two C- grades at his private school. He wasn't cut any slack at all and yet he still ended up with the same grades as kids in my public school who never attended class. I couldn't have picked these students out if they were standing right on front of me. [/quote]

I don't doubt what you wrote above and I'm sure it was very frustrating, understandably, for your child to see kids in the public school where you work get grades that they didn't deserve while he studied really hard.  But when the admissions offices at colleges see that you child's C- was not a "bad" grade at his private school because high grades there were VERY hard to come by, he will be viewed much more positively than an applicant with a higher GPA from a public whose grade information shows that, for example, no one failed and most kids got As and/or Bs.  [/quote]

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