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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools often don’t disclose relative rank anymore, and if they all get As relative rank doesn’t matter. A lot of public schools had GPAs shoot up in the pandemic and teachers could not fail kids. You think admissions did not notice?

That is why people are asking about public or private. 3.4 uw in a competitive private will have options that a 3.4 won’t have otherwise. [/quote]

What you wrote doesn't change the fact that it depends on [b]the individual school [/b]in question.  Yes, of course an applicant from a rigorous private where a 3.4 uw is a "good" (i.e., above the mean and/or average) GPA in that school's grade distribution range is in better shape than a kid with, say, a 3.8 uw from a public school at which that GPA is about average.  (Even without disclosing rank, high schools still provide grade data/ranges to colleges.)  And yes, colleges know that Sidwell and other elite privates have, per capita, more very talented kids than found in most publics.  But not every private is Sidwell or is stingy in giving As to students -- far from it.  And not every public schools gave out As to more than half the class.  Each applicant and her/his school will be reviewed individually. [/quote]

Sure? I mean obviously this depends on the individual schools in question for the actual admissions committee. But this is DCUM and we don’t know the specific schools and we aren’t an admissions committee. Therefore people are making recommendations to OP based off generalizations, which is also fine. “Competitive private” 3.4 uw is going to get different DCUM recommendations than “large suburban public” 3.4 uw, for instance. OP is asking for recommendations/possibilities and those will change depending on the high school profile her DS fits. [/quote]

What you wrote makes sense.  It's just that several posts have not specified "competitive" private, but appeared to lump all private schools together (in addition to lumping all public schools together).  And then there's the question of which privates should be considered "competitive" - some would be obvious, but most parents shelling out for a private school want to think their kid's school falls in that category, even when it's not even close to being in the same league as, say, the Big 3. [/quote]

This seems bizarrely nitpicky and defensive to me. [/quote]

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