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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which Big3 got only 5 ED admits? I am not seeing that on the instagram pages. I saw awesome results from many schools in this area, private and public.
I couldn’t find NCS and STA. I found the other private schools acceptances and they look pretty impressive.
Whitman, Churchill and BCC have many EDs in the top 20. The VA public ones are ok too.
Couldn’t find WJ, Wootton pages. [/quote]

NCS. They are getting next to nobody in. [/quote]

+2 If I told you the colleges where my NCS student was deferred and rejected from thus far you wouldn’t believe me. NCS is providing an excellent education to my daughter, but the fact that most girls have transcripts filled with Bs and an occasional C is killing their chances in this test optional world. The schools DO NOT CARE that NCS has phased out APs or that my DD has a 33 ACT. It has been a very rough 3 weeks. [/quote]

So in other words, NCS issues true grades like they used to 20-30 years ago.[/quote]

I’m not an NCS parent and my impression is that schools like NCS that don’t grade inflate are actually hurting the admissions chances of their kids to big public universities even though their kids are getting a very good education.

Students who are exceptionally good students but who graduate with a 3.9 instead of the 4.9 that their peers have are dinged in admissions to large public institutions in particular. It’s less harmful for admissions to the Ivies and SLACs. [/quote]

Right, but virtually no one at NCS has a 3.9. Maybe every couple years you get a few. Girls with 3.7 are the ones applying to Ivies, Stanford, etc. I am talking about girls in the middle of the class. Like 3.0-3.4[/quote]

Understood, and those kids are definitely hurt by the lack of grade inflation. I really don’t understand the people here who are claiming the true grading (versus inflation) doesn’t hurt. It definitely hurts.

The world has (unfortunately) changed to move to a world that rewards grade inflation. If most of the big public high schools graduate a significant portion of their kids with GPAs over 4.0 and 100-200 kids qualify to be valedictorian, I’m not sure how anyone argues that grade inflation isn’t the reality now. Schools that don’t grade inflate hurt their kids in admissions, although their kids individually get both excellent education and a good dose of reality in the process. [/quote]

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