Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:52
Subject: Normal people?
My kid is probably going to Montgomery College.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:51
Subject: Re:Normal people?
a 1310 SAT is normal. A 2.5 g.p.a. these days is a bit below normal. Just telling it like it is.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:49
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A 2.5 GPA is not "normal." That's mediocre. If a kid is going to school every day and is somewhat engaged, a 3.0 GPA is the baseline.
A 1300+ SAT isn't bad at all.
I believe the average high school GPA is 3.0, so while a 2.5 might be below average, it’s not abnormal. Is it that hard to be kind and respectful towards each other? Why would you jump on a post like this and shoot someone down?
Agreed. I have been lurking around here for a while and I must say this is such a negative site. It’s due to a handful of bitter, jealous, angry, insecure, and/or generally unhappy folks. I guess if you have the time to sit here and wait to respond negatively, you really have nothing going on, or take pleasure in being a contrarian or jerk. On the same note, if you are going to post, you must have thick skin, because an anonymous board just breeds such trolls. This is my last viewed post and contribution as I’m officially off this site for those reasons.
Byeeeeee
Toxic
Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:40
Subject: Normal people?
I have a 4.0, perfect SAT, 11 AP kid. She will be going to UMD along with 60% of her magnet class that have comparable stats.
Most of the kids are normal. They don't burn the midnight oil to get these grades. They just happen to be normal, laid back kids who happen to get excellent grades because of a number of factors.
Most of the kids are normal. They don't burn the midnight oil to get these grades. They just happen to be normal, laid back kids who happen to get excellent grades because of a number of factors.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:34
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone on this board seem to have a child with a near perfect SAT score and a 4.0 GPA? Where are the normal kids? The kids who are not cutthroat or taking 6 APs a year? I can’t believe so many kids have perfect SaT scores. Anyone “ normal” out there???
A 4.0 GPA isn’t that difficult to achieve given grade inflation across America.
6 AP’s isn’t that difficult either. I think I did that many in the 90s. The norm these days is 7-12+ for high achieving kids
The near perfect SAT IS impressive and something to celebrate.
The last two pages of college thread inquire about or mention many lower ranked colleges, some I honestly have never heard of, so there seem to be plenty on this board who are in the range of ‘normal’ that you speak OP.
I think these stats are impressive if they are not the result of tiger parenting. Who of even slightly above average intelligence could not achieve them with 4-5 years of intensive coaching and a lifetime of intellectual enrichment. My kids speak 5 languages just like me. My accomplishment is greater than theirs because they learned two from birth and started the third in preschool. I learned all of mine after the age of 15. The college admissions process is not designed to reveal the layers of embedded privilege that contribute to the accomplishments of most of today's applicants. My father, whose own father could not read, got a perfect score on the math part of the SAT at a public school in the segregated South decades ago. Few of the pampered youth of today would be able to do anything like that.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:24
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone on this board seem to have a child with a near perfect SAT score and a 4.0 GPA? Where are the normal kids? The kids who are not cutthroat or taking 6 APs a year? I can’t believe so many kids have perfect SaT scores. Anyone “ normal” out there???
6 APS? Normal at our school is 11+
11+ APs a year? That really is impressive.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 07:18
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone on this board seem to have a child with a near perfect SAT score and a 4.0 GPA? Where are the normal kids? The kids who are not cutthroat or taking 6 APs a year? I can’t believe so many kids have perfect SaT scores. Anyone “ normal” out there???
6 APS? Normal at our school is 11+
How are kids taking 11 APs in one year? The max number of classes is 6 or 7.
This thread shows people don't read carefully. The first poster quoted said "6 APs a year" and the second poster was referring to total APs.
My kid is pretty normal compared to her peers with a 4.1 in FCPS and 1380 SAT. She will have 12 APs when she graduates. 6 are this year. It's not what I advised her to do, but she made the choice and it's been fine. She's kept her grades up despite challenging mental and physical health issues.
But of course you don't have to do all that to get into a good college. There are so many schools out there that will offer a great education. My DD got into her first choice school ED (competitive school but not T20), but her second choice was a school that admits more than 70% of applicants. She could have easily gotten in with much lower stats and been very happy.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 06:39
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone on this board seem to have a child with a near perfect SAT score and a 4.0 GPA? Where are the normal kids? The kids who are not cutthroat or taking 6 APs a year? I can’t believe so many kids have perfect SaT scores. Anyone “ normal” out there???
6 APS? Normal at our school is 11+
How are kids taking 11 APs in one year? The max number of classes is 6 or 7.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 00:13
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:You want to hear normal? My senior makes Bs and Cs and got a 29 on his ACT. He was doing the IB diploma but dropped when school was online and now that he’s in to his ED school he goes to school, but then usually ends up at ihop or the mall or McDonald’s or wherever with his friends sometime in the middle of the day, and he’s still making Bs and Cs. This kid has no desire to cure cancer, but he’s going to college and he’ll come out with a career and live a great life. I’m just happy that he’s happy.
Perpetual senioritis.
Congrats?
Anonymous
02/28/2022 00:04
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous board = lying
Yep. My theory is that a lot of posters lie/exaggerate their kids' stats in order to intimidate others from applying. Having had three kids go through this process so far, I can usually tell when someone is flat-out lying.
Anonymous
02/28/2022 00:02
Subject: Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People like to brag. The more people brag, the more people with "normal" kids don't speak up because they're comparing their kids.
The normal kids are out there, wandering around being perfectly happy and a lot less stressed than the impressive kids.
+1. I have a normal kid. She’s enjoying high school and doing an admirable job, but she’s not in any 99th percentile. She’ll be fine. She’ll get into a good college and she’ll pick a discipline that interests her. Don’t compare yourself to DCUM. What you read here isn’t a good sample of the population.
+2
And what I find bizarre are the posters who criticize the "normal" schools when they hear that someone's kid is happy and doing well. It's like, they can't stand the fact that anyone would be happy and unconcerned with going to a T20/Ivy, etc. Dead giveaway that the poster is seriously unhappy.
Anonymous
02/27/2022 23:47
Subject: Normal people?
You want to hear normal? My senior makes Bs and Cs and got a 29 on his ACT. He was doing the IB diploma but dropped when school was online and now that he’s in to his ED school he goes to school, but then usually ends up at ihop or the mall or McDonald’s or wherever with his friends sometime in the middle of the day, and he’s still making Bs and Cs. This kid has no desire to cure cancer, but he’s going to college and he’ll come out with a career and live a great life. I’m just happy that he’s happy.
Anonymous
02/27/2022 23:21
Subject: Normal people?
NP. PP did not say that the average kid takes 11 APs, just that it’s not rare/unusual.
Anonymous
02/27/2022 21:32
Subject: Re:Normal people?
Anonymous wrote:Ap lang + AP lit - gr 11-12
AP world hist + AP US Hist + AP gov - gr 10-12
AP world lang (11 or 12)
==> 5-6 APs
AP calc (anywhere from 10-12) + AP CS (10 or 11) + AP CS Principles (10)
1 AP science in 12
And either AP psych or AP econ micro/macro or extra AP science
+ poss AP art or music or other
==> about 5-6 more
So just taking the top level of courses required each year for the standard diploma at FCPS gets you a min of 5 but more likely about 11 APs and that is about 15% of high school students following this track (e.g AAP kids from middle school)
So maybe "normal" is not the top 15% (1 out of every 6 or 7 kids) but it is certainty not the 99% percentile.
So I would not agree with the high school teacher who said 10 APs is not "normal".
Now if you took only APs from 9-12 whenever it was possible to slot in an AP and came out with 18-22 then yes that would not be normal.
Not every kid takes both AP lang & AP lit, or even either.
Not every kid takes an AP world language. Probably most do not. My kid's school did not offer the AP course in their world language.
And as for AP calc - do you realize how many kids are not on track to get to that by senior year?
You are delusional if you think the average kid takes 11 AP classes.
Anonymous
02/27/2022 20:57
Subject: Re:Normal people?
Ap lang + AP lit - gr 11-12
AP world hist + AP US Hist + AP gov - gr 10-12
AP world lang (11 or 12)
==> 5-6 APs
AP calc (anywhere from 10-12) + AP CS (10 or 11) + AP CS Principles (10)
1 AP science in 12
And either AP psych or AP econ micro/macro or extra AP science
+ poss AP art or music or other
==> about 5-6 more
So just taking the top level of courses required each year for the standard diploma at FCPS gets you a min of 5 but more likely about 11 APs and that is about 15% of high school students following this track (e.g AAP kids from middle school)
So maybe "normal" is not the top 15% (1 out of every 6 or 7 kids) but it is certainty not the 99% percentile.
So I would not agree with the high school teacher who said 10 APs is not "normal".
Now if you took only APs from 9-12 whenever it was possible to slot in an AP and came out with 18-22 then yes that would not be normal.
AP world hist + AP US Hist + AP gov - gr 10-12
AP world lang (11 or 12)
==> 5-6 APs
AP calc (anywhere from 10-12) + AP CS (10 or 11) + AP CS Principles (10)
1 AP science in 12
And either AP psych or AP econ micro/macro or extra AP science
+ poss AP art or music or other
==> about 5-6 more
So just taking the top level of courses required each year for the standard diploma at FCPS gets you a min of 5 but more likely about 11 APs and that is about 15% of high school students following this track (e.g AAP kids from middle school)
So maybe "normal" is not the top 15% (1 out of every 6 or 7 kids) but it is certainty not the 99% percentile.
So I would not agree with the high school teacher who said 10 APs is not "normal".
Now if you took only APs from 9-12 whenever it was possible to slot in an AP and came out with 18-22 then yes that would not be normal.