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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

[b]SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private.  This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their 
3.4's for working their a$$es off.  🙁

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Can you provide evidence for that?  [/quote]

They're probably the best in the DC for getting unhooked (white/Asian, non-legacy, non athletic recruit) kids into Ivies. This year I don't know exactly but it's probably as many as 10 kids. 
Some are on their Instagram, others I just know about.  In contrast, the Big 3s' are maybe getting in 2 of these kids per class this year.  I have a Big3 kid who attended DCPS until middle school
so we know Walls kids very well as many of my kid's friends attend Walls.  [/quote]

This.And it happening at MCPS also (Whitman and BCC). Incredible years for college acceptances. It's really great to see such success for these kids who had some really crappy covid years. [/quote]

SWW’s 7 total acceptances to Yale (1), Penn (2), Cornell (3), and Barnard (1) is nice for an academic magnet high school.  However, 7 admissions out of 150 to 160 students is not “incredible.”  [/quote]. Barnard is counting as an Ivy these days?? [/quote]

I’m trying to help Walls by including Ivy-adjacent Barnard in their count.[/quote]

The Barnard degree says Columbia University so there is that. It is one of Columbia's colleges. But not sure why people here care so much about whats going on at SWW. You made a choice for your kid. Just focus on that and the mental health of your kids.[/quote]

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