Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 14:43     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Churchill is the best in county.


And yet my friend sent all 3 of her kids to private, despite living within a mile of the school. They are not wealthy, and struggled to do so. MoCo schools are on the decline, sharp and fast. And the colleges know that, too. Just take a look at college acceptance thread.

Sure you do.
And college acceptances in MCPS are better than in privates.
Troll
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 14:37     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Churchill is the best in county.


And yet my friend sent all 3 of her kids to private, despite living within a mile of the school. They are not wealthy, and struggled to do so. MoCo schools are on the decline, sharp and fast. And the colleges know that, too. Just take a look at college acceptance thread.


If they have hook then it's fine otherwise please read unhooked kids from Big3 thread for admissions.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 14:36     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Churchill is the best in county.


And yet my friend sent all 3 of her kids to private, despite living within a mile of the school. They are not wealthy, and struggled to do so. MoCo schools are on the decline, sharp and fast. And the colleges know that, too. Just take a look at college acceptance thread.


Changes in college admissions have less to do with the decline of top MCPS schools and more to do with top schools having handed their admissions offices over to people who prioritize DEI and view high-achieving kids who live in affluent communities as boring, privileged kids best ignored. They love turning them down and, at the end of the day, it's fine. They are diminishing the reputations of their once-elite schools and degrees from schools like Maryland will be every bit as valuable in the marketplace in the future as degrees from Oberlin, Yale, Princeton, Wesleyan, Amherst, etc.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 14:29     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:Churchill is the best in county.


And yet my friend sent all 3 of her kids to private, despite living within a mile of the school. They are not wealthy, and struggled to do so. MoCo schools are on the decline, sharp and fast. And the colleges know that, too. Just take a look at college acceptance thread.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 14:02     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Churchill is the best in county.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2023 01:27     Subject: Re:Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:The Churchill class of 2021 is even crazier, with 54% having above a 4.5 weighted GPA: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EI5RAHMoBiE9q51Eh_NnwdvczscGFpcu/view



So many ta lol ented kids!
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 18:32     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Schools just end up on different trajectories. Different norms are set and they reinforce themselves.

This is one reason that admissions officers look at the applications from each school together. They review all Churchill. Then all Wootton, etc. So they basically compare kids within their same school rather than across schools with different opportunities, course availability, and norms.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 07:34     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton


+1. A factor Churchill has total control over MCPS system
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 06:50     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Don’t you know you need to compare apples to apples? Why are you comparing data that differs by two years? Plus 2020 was the first COVID year.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 06:48     Subject: Re:Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
The Churchill class of 2021 is even crazier, with 54% having above a 4.5 weighted GPA: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EI5RAHMoBiE9q51Eh_NnwdvczscGFpcu/view
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 06:38     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton

I also heard the only reason Wootton does better than Kennedy was grade inflation.

Kennedy does plenty of grade inflation itself so that theory is BS.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 06:31     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton

I also heard the only reason Wootton does better than Kennedy was grade inflation.


You heard wrong
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 06:28     Subject: Re:Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
The differing years make a huge difference here for all MoCo schools. The grading policy where Q1 A+ Q2 B = semester A started in the 2016-2017 school year, and that plus the elimination of exams led to very different overall GPA rates in 2018 and 2020.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 04:34     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
I will never to this day not understand why MCPS doesn't do 100 grading system. No letters. No inflated block system. Stop padding kids and letting kids work the system

Just a number grade every quarter.
A final each semester counts for 10% of each semester grade.
One quiz retake each quarter and it divides the two grades
0.5 for honors classes
1.0 bump for AP if you get least a 3 on the AP exam
0.5 bump for AP you get a 1 or 2 on the AP exam or don't take
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 03:51     Subject: Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?
Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton

I also heard the only reason Wootton does better than Kennedy was grade inflation.