Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 17:09     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff


There are still too many kids with As in the most rigorous classes.


+1. Literally 50 percent of *all* high school seniors have an A average GPA! 50 percent!

Unless your kid is firing off 4s and 5s on AP exams and a 90+ percentile ACT/SAT, they are not "super smart" nor very special. Just a dime a dozen lazy teenager with fake grades.


Total crap. Cite.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 17:04     Subject: Re:So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:The degree to which you can claim victimhood of one form or another will be key.


Can you translate for those of us who don’t speak racist pig?

TIA.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 16:57     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:Essays and recommendations will be more important factors than they are now.


+100
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:57     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff


There are still too many kids with As in the most rigorous classes.


+1. Literally 50 percent of *all* high school seniors have an A average GPA! 50 percent!

Unless your kid is firing off 4s and 5s on AP exams and a 90+ percentile ACT/SAT, they are not "super smart" nor very special. Just a dime a dozen lazy teenager with fake grades.


I wouldn’t say the “dime a dozen” kids are lazy, but they aren’t all exceptional.


That was a bit harsh. It was more in regards to how dime a dozen compare to the exceptional. Exception kids run circles around the dime a dozen "above average" kids.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:55     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ PP: bingo.

So many delusional parents think their above average kid is “super smart.” They’re not. Your kid is a dime a dozen.




The poster said "smart kids have already taken it." When people say smart on here, they seem to be referring to kids with 1500+ sat but that is wayyy above average in real life. Way above just "smart." Smart is 1300+ in my opinion.


1300 is only 80 percentile, which is not impressive in any way. I'm guessing you wrote 1300 because that's about what your own good not great kid scored. 90 percentile is 1400, 95 percentile is 1450.


NP. I know my good but not great kid got a 1310 which is 88th user percentile (the worse percentile), and 1400 is at least 94th user percentile. But keep talking out of your ass.


There are 3.7 million 12th graders in the United States. Do the math on how "impressive" an 80th or 88th percentile or whatever is vis a vis the amount of first-year seats avail at the top 20 or 30 colleges.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:36     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ PP: bingo.

So many delusional parents think their above average kid is “super smart.” They’re not. Your kid is a dime a dozen.




The poster said "smart kids have already taken it." When people say smart on here, they seem to be referring to kids with 1500+ sat but that is wayyy above average in real life. Way above just "smart." Smart is 1300+ in my opinion.


1300 is only 80 percentile, which is not impressive in any way. I'm guessing you wrote 1300 because that's about what your own good not great kid scored. 90 percentile is 1400, 95 percentile is 1450.



Actually a 1240 is 80th percentile.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:32     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ PP: bingo.

So many delusional parents think their above average kid is “super smart.” They’re not. Your kid is a dime a dozen.




The poster said "smart kids have already taken it." When people say smart on here, they seem to be referring to kids with 1500+ sat but that is wayyy above average in real life. Way above just "smart." Smart is 1300+ in my opinion.


1300 is only 80 percentile, which is not impressive in any way. I'm guessing you wrote 1300 because that's about what your own good not great kid scored. 90 percentile is 1400, 95 percentile is 1450.


NP. I know my good but not great kid got a 1310 which is 88th user percentile (the worse percentile), and 1400 is at least 94th user percentile. But keep talking out of your ass.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:29     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff


There are still too many kids with As in the most rigorous classes.


+1. Literally 50 percent of *all* high school seniors have an A average GPA! 50 percent!

Unless your kid is firing off 4s and 5s on AP exams and a 90+ percentile ACT/SAT, they are not "super smart" nor very special. Just a dime a dozen lazy teenager with fake grades.


I wouldn’t say the “dime a dozen” kids are lazy, but they aren’t all exceptional.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:23     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ PP: bingo.

So many delusional parents think their above average kid is “super smart.” They’re not. Your kid is a dime a dozen.




The poster said "smart kids have already taken it." When people say smart on here, they seem to be referring to kids with 1500+ sat but that is wayyy above average in real life. Way above just "smart." Smart is 1300+ in my opinion.


1300 is only 80 percentile, which is not impressive in any way. I'm guessing you wrote 1300 because that's about what your own good not great kid scored. 90 percentile is 1400, 95 percentile is 1450.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:22     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Both of the above are correct. It is a problem that this varies by high school. (One would think AOs would know the difference, but I'm not convinced. )

Also, few top colleges report any GPA info, so without scores they have endless flexibility.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 15:19     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff


There are still too many kids with As in the most rigorous classes.


+1. Literally 50 percent of *all* high school seniors have an A average GPA! 50 percent!

Unless your kid is firing off 4s and 5s on AP exams and a 90+ percentile ACT/SAT, they are not "super smart" nor very special. Just a dime a dozen lazy teenager with fake grades.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 14:25     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff




There are still too many kids with As in the most rigorous classes.


Not at our public non-magnet HS. Four years of success in rigorous classes is easily the best indicator of future academic success.

Define "too many" and how you know.

Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 14:18     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff




There are still too many kids with As in the most rigorous classes.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 14:18     Subject: Re:So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Voluntourism trips


Those scams likely cost you a point or two.



A private High School in my area requires a domestic week of service (in addition to other hours) the summer before senior year. They take kids all over the mid Atlantic/Northeast, but the trip they are most proud of is to an Indian Reservation in the Dakotas. The kids post tons of reflective sayings on Social media about it, but the school keeps quiet about the fact that the trip costs each kid $5,000. I'm sure they put the trip on their college applications.


Given that admissions staff review all applications from a particular school at the same time, how does this help ie. reading 10 descriptions of the same trip to the Dakotas.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2020 14:00     Subject: So if there is no SAT and everyone gets A's what will distinguish kids?
Rigor of coursework.

Getting A’s in the hardest classes versus the fluff