Admission Officers would easily pick a B student at a rigorous school over a 4.0/4.5 student at a grade inflated school.

Attention deficit is the thing affecting ALL in education. It is not just the students!

Anonymous wrote:College prof here. The students are far, far less prepared for college (at least at my college) than they were 10 years ago.

Now that I have a HSer, I understand where my undergrads have been coming from when they seem shocked that I won't let them retake tests they did poorly on.

Supported by what? Kids learn a lot more from their degrees now and have much higher expectations than when I was in college.

The GPAs never went to 5.0 in our day. You have to adjust, but yes, grading is lenient now.

Anonymous wrote:College prof here. The students are far, far less prepared for college (at least at my college) than they were 10 years ago.

Now that I have a HSer, I understand where my undergrads have been coming from when they seem shocked that I won't let them retake tests they did poorly on.

I agree. It’s alarming how quickly the decline has happened, with the biggest drop within the last 5 years with Covid and now AI. It is not a generational gap.

At our private school, no one has 4.0. A is very difficult to get.

Nobody can spell anymore.

I find that they are split more dramatically into "haves" and "have nots." The top tier of students is stronger than any I've had in years. But the bottom group, the ones who are clueless, can't write or (apparently) follow simply syllabus guidelines, is growing. The largest group is still in the middle.

College prof here. The students are far, far less prepared for college (at least at my college) than they were 10 years ago.

Now that I have a HSer, I understand where my undergrads have been coming from when they seem shocked that I won't let them retake tests they did poorly on.

Signed a mom of DC27 whose whole class seems to have 4.0s+