Anonymous
Post 01/30/2022 00:20     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At most “good” public and private schools, the top 10% gets into the very competitive, elite colleges. By “good” meaning the schools like the W high schools and private schools like Sidwell. The only private and public schools that send a greater percentage to kids that are not top 10%, are magnets like TJ, usually the top 20%, and top private schools like Andover, top 20%. DC private schools including the Big3 are nowhere on par.

So kids with sub 3.0 gpas from the Big 3 go to the same colleges that the other 90% go including the 90% from public.


Correct. And for a fraction of the cost. Sounds like a value proposition at play here. Why do folks buy privates, hook line and sinker. Tip students will get into top schools regardless. Middle of the road is just that…


Actually that’s not true. If the high school hasn’t sent a student to Harvard in the past 5 years, it is highly unlikely that even the valedictorian will get in…. So it is easier to get into a very competitive college if the high school regularly sends kids there from their top 5-10%.

Anonymous
Post 01/30/2022 00:12     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:At most “good” public and private schools, the top 10% gets into the very competitive, elite colleges. By “good” meaning the schools like the W high schools and private schools like Sidwell. The only private and public schools that send a greater percentage to kids that are not top 10%, are magnets like TJ, usually the top 20%, and top private schools like Andover, top 20%. DC private schools including the Big3 are nowhere on par.

So kids with sub 3.0 gpas from the Big 3 go to the same colleges that the other 90% go including the 90% from public.


Correct. And for a fraction of the cost. Sounds like a value proposition at play here. Why do folks buy privates, hook line and sinker. Tip students will get into top schools regardless. Middle of the road is just that…
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2022 00:10     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.

Curious what you’re doing here. What would be your contribution, aside from gawking and snide comments?

For myself, I have kids in both and while they haven’t graduated yet, what I can tell you is that grading is much more rigorous in our private than public.

Half the kids in public have 4.0s, which is ridiculous. But when Bethesda Magazine published college data for our public, it doesn’t match the grade distribution. A lot of good colleges sure, but clearly a lot of kids with 4.0s out of a good public HS not going to top colleges. Grade inflation is a problem and the college admissions offices seem to know it.

On the other hand, at our private, only a couple kids graduate with 4.0s every year and there is no ambiguity about where they are accepted.

Head to head, I feel a lot more confident having a kid graduate from the private school with an UW 3.7 than the same for the public school, regardless of test scores and my skimming of college admissions results for the two I think backs this up.


The thread is about kids in private and you drag public school into the discussion. Why? What is relevance? Need to pull some kids down so others look better? Nice.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2022 00:09     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
At most “good” public and private schools, the top 10% gets into the very competitive, elite colleges. By “good” meaning the schools like the W high schools and private schools like Sidwell. The only private and public schools that send a greater percentage to kids that are not top 10%, are magnets like TJ, usually the top 20%, and top private schools like Andover, top 20%. DC private schools including the Big3 are nowhere on par.

So kids with sub 3.0 gpas from the Big 3 go to the same colleges that the other 90% go including the 90% from public.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2022 00:04     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:I should know better than to feed trolls projecting their own insecurities.


Yup. Privates crack me up.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:56     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
I should know better than to feed trolls projecting their own insecurities.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:44     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.

Curious what you’re doing here. What would be your contribution, aside from gawking and snide comments?

For myself, I have kids in both and while they haven’t graduated yet, what I can tell you is that grading is much more rigorous in our private than public.

Half the kids in public have 4.0s, which is ridiculous. But when Bethesda Magazine published college data for our public, it doesn’t match the grade distribution. A lot of good colleges sure, but clearly a lot of kids with 4.0s out of a good public HS not going to top colleges. Grade inflation is a problem and the college admissions offices seem to know it.

On the other hand, at our private, only a couple kids graduate with 4.0s every year and there is no ambiguity about where they are accepted.

Head to head, I feel a lot more confident having a kid graduate from the private school with an UW 3.7 than the same for the public school, regardless of test scores and my skimming of college admissions results for the two I think backs this up.


Hey I get your defensiveness…no need to explain.


Likely therapeutic. It’s ok. I use my savings and treat it like a scholarship fund for my child’s T25 school, while PP explains why top private school kids are just as smart as top public kids. Middle of the road stats produce the same results regardless of public or private. That’s fact. But hard to hear when said out loud


Privates are big business, and employ a lot of people with your tuition dollars to gain the same result for top students and average students…how dare you expose that. And the truth is, the child’s family situation is the biggest driver of success regardless if private or public…but privates don’t want you to hear that…
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:40     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.

Curious what you’re doing here. What would be your contribution, aside from gawking and snide comments?

For myself, I have kids in both and while they haven’t graduated yet, what I can tell you is that grading is much more rigorous in our private than public.

Half the kids in public have 4.0s, which is ridiculous. But when Bethesda Magazine published college data for our public, it doesn’t match the grade distribution. A lot of good colleges sure, but clearly a lot of kids with 4.0s out of a good public HS not going to top colleges. Grade inflation is a problem and the college admissions offices seem to know it.

On the other hand, at our private, only a couple kids graduate with 4.0s every year and there is no ambiguity about where they are accepted.

Head to head, I feel a lot more confident having a kid graduate from the private school with an UW 3.7 than the same for the public school, regardless of test scores and my skimming of college admissions results for the two I think backs this up.


Hey I get your defensiveness…no need to explain.


Likely therapeutic. It’s ok. I use my savings and treat it like a scholarship fund for my child’s T25 school, while PP explains why top private school kids are just as smart as top public kids. Middle of the road stats produce the same results regardless of public or private. That’s fact. But hard to hear when said out loud
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:36     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.

Curious what you’re doing here. What would be your contribution, aside from gawking and snide comments?

For myself, I have kids in both and while they haven’t graduated yet, what I can tell you is that grading is much more rigorous in our private than public.

Half the kids in public have 4.0s, which is ridiculous. But when Bethesda Magazine published college data for our public, it doesn’t match the grade distribution. A lot of good colleges sure, but clearly a lot of kids with 4.0s out of a good public HS not going to top colleges. Grade inflation is a problem and the college admissions offices seem to know it.

On the other hand, at our private, only a couple kids graduate with 4.0s every year and there is no ambiguity about where they are accepted.

Head to head, I feel a lot more confident having a kid graduate from the private school with an UW 3.7 than the same for the public school, regardless of test scores and my skimming of college admissions results for the two I think backs this up.


Hey I get your defensiveness…no need to explain.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:32     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.

Curious what you’re doing here. What would be your contribution, aside from gawking and snide comments?

For myself, I have kids in both and while they haven’t graduated yet, what I can tell you is that grading is much more rigorous in our private than public.

Half the kids in public have 4.0s, which is ridiculous. But when Bethesda Magazine published college data for our public, it doesn’t match the grade distribution. A lot of good colleges sure, but clearly a lot of kids with 4.0s out of a good public HS not going to top colleges. Grade inflation is a problem and the college admissions offices seem to know it.

On the other hand, at our private, only a couple kids graduate with 4.0s every year and there is no ambiguity about where they are accepted.

Head to head, I feel a lot more confident having a kid graduate from the private school with an UW 3.7 than the same for the public school, regardless of test scores and my skimming of college admissions results for the two I think backs this up.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:31     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
They probably get recruited for athletics
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:28     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:19     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Nope. PP at 20:33 took the first shot.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 23:08     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why has this discussion become focused on private vs. public? Is it really so hard to talk about the bottom 20% that you have to resort to criticizing kids at other schools?


Probably because private always take shots…cracks me up, but I get the justification for choices and costs associated with that.


Huh? It's the public parents who took the post in a negative direction.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2022 22:56     Subject: What happens with the Big3 kids who have sub 3.0 GPAs?
Anonymous wrote:Why has this discussion become focused on private vs. public? Is it really so hard to talk about the bottom 20% that you have to resort to criticizing kids at other schools?


Probably because private always take shots…cracks me up, but I get the justification for choices and costs associated with that.