The Deuce: Cool. Best of luck to her. My friend’s boy is the second to attend mines from this area that I know

College application season is in full swing and colleges are inflating admitted student GPAs - ATL November 25, 2025, 12:51:34

With AI, any colleges that don't use test scores are worthless institutions.* - gullit November 26, 2025, 11:51:17
- gotta love that the average GPA for current Harvard students = around 3.8 - Potomac November 26, 2025, 12:10:40
  - Harvard and most ivies have long inflated grades* - torinese November 26, 2025, 15:56:14
Grade inflation is real; link to blog post about UCSD students - jfinsocal November 26, 2025, 11:39:22
- take a sample SAT Math test and see how easy many of the questions are - Potomac November 26, 2025, 11:45:58
  - there is a reason places like Princeton review exist* - torinese November 26, 2025, 15:55:31
  - Also there's a calculator app that's part of the SAT test software - illinibone November 26, 2025, 14:26:13
    - Meant to be under Potomac vvv * - illinibone November 26, 2025, 14:26:47
  - My son is 26 and took the ACT as a bet with his friend this year - jfinsocal November 26, 2025, 11:49:34
    - I took the sample SATs without a graphing calculator - Potomac November 26, 2025, 11:51:51
      - Lee Harvey, YOU are a madman - redgrange77 November 26, 2025, 12:00:34
        
        LOL, just go to the library and try one. But about taking classes... - Potomac November 26, 2025, 12:05:28
my daughter is HS jr. she scored 30 on ACT first attempt ranked 4th out 300?of - redgrange77 November 26, 2025, 11:28:43
- is standardized test score inflation also a thing, or are kids just smarter now? - Sammich November 26, 2025, 11:44:28
  - Yes in a few ways. I think they've been rescaled (DT mentions below). And superscoring allows higher - ATL November 26, 2025, 11:52:38
  - we constantly hear about how less prepared students are in college - Potomac November 26, 2025, 11:49:40
- mini "got tired" and didn't do well on the science section (last section) the first time he took it - ATL November 26, 2025, 11:31:09
  - it's her life, her decision, I give positive encouragement and ask questions - redgrange77 November 26, 2025, 11:38:34
Any chance they are using a 5 point scale? - DT November 26, 2025, 7:24:56
- Got hired for my first job out of UI and they were impressed with my 3.9 GPA... - RSMBob November 26, 2025, 15:48:56
- To bonbon's point, they are recalculating by (probably) giving a boost to AP/IB/Honors classes. - ATL November 26, 2025, 10:38:59
  - On average, probably, but there's also people that aren't great at standardized tests.* - illinibone November 26, 2025, 11:27:23
    - we used to call them morans - bbonb November 26, 2025, 14:44:33
    - Yes, I agree. But the data are presumably means or medians and not any one particular student.* - ATL November 26, 2025, 11:31:55
- A.P. and I.B. classes can easily push the GPA well above 4.0* - bbonb November 26, 2025, 7:40:30
Do they really inflate the gpa? How? I’m starting to get worried about my oldest - FidelGoodell November 26, 2025, 5:28:42
- my daughter had 4.0 unweighted in HS but was back somewhat from the top in weighted - Potomac November 26, 2025, 11:58:50
- He’ll be fine. People put way too much stock in an undergraduate degree at this point. And way too - voiceofreason November 26, 2025, 9:36:19
- Over for what? Ivy League, probably. What’s wrong with the University of Colorado?* - Toonces November 26, 2025, 9:15:15
- The world needs ditch diggers too* - gvibes November 26, 2025, 9:06:49
  - We're all gonna be ditch diggers when the Chinese AI botnet shuts down the internet. * - doubledown November 26, 2025, 9:20:31
- They all admittedly recalculate GPAs based on formulae with varying degrees of transparency. Auburn - ATL November 26, 2025, 7:36:59
  - auburn is public, right? should be able to foia that, if people are still doing that these days* - torinese November 26, 2025, 9:02:04
- Send him to trade school. * - haighter November 26, 2025, 7:28:37
- Eat arbys* - lcubed November 26, 2025, 6:26:44
Lulz - ATL November 25, 2025, 21:05:08
- We’ve got college at home.* - DT November 26, 2025, 4:26:48
How are your kiddos faring thus far? My senior is in at Pitt, Minnesota and MSOE - nash November 25, 2025, 15:24:50
- Don’t send your kid to Pitt if they’re looking for a normal undergrad experience. - opossum jenkins November 26, 2025, 9:42:37
- what's msoe? also noobster was at beloved MATSE for a year - Nobster November 25, 2025, 19:52:16
  - Milwaukee School of Engineering. - nash November 25, 2025, 20:02:41
    - sounds like a good place. i have family in mke-area. hope things go well - Nobster November 25, 2025, 20:11:28
- My kiddo has cast a wide net because she's on the cusp of D2 Track and Field - illinibone November 25, 2025, 18:51:45
  - A friend of mine has a freshman at Col School of Mines. The kid really likes it there. - harb November 25, 2025, 19:52:30
    - Snowboarding on the weekends was one of the reasons both Mines and Montana State were on her list - illinibone November 26, 2025, 0:18:02
      - Cool. Best of luck to her. My friend’s boy is the second to attend mines from this area that I know - harb November 26, 2025, 7:10:15
    - school of mines seems like a very cool program. but i thin it heavily values in - Nobster November 25, 2025, 19:54:40
      - It's an engineering school. Of course (and sadly) it's mostly dudes.* - illinibone November 26, 2025, 0:16:43
      - 69% dudes. Nice... unless you are one of the dudes above 31%.* - SurfTheBoneyard November 25, 2025, 20:00:07
        
        kind of like michigan tech. it's a great school, but the student body is 70% male and 80% white - Nobster November 25, 2025, 20:14:12
        
        I loved Michigan Tech, but the 70% dudes thing wasn’t great - IlliniOllie November 25, 2025, 21:29:00
        
        This was the main reason I chose Illinois over Georgia Tech in 1991. Would have had to transfer out - ATL November 26, 2025, 6:27:00
- mini is in at Kennesaw St, Auburn, Pitt and PSU. EA to the Beloved, scUM, UF, Va Tech, Clemson, NCSU - ATL November 25, 2025, 15:49:23
  - May I presume Kennesaw State is an extreme fallback school? - Sounder November 25, 2025, 17:59:45
    - Yeah. It’s got a good local reputation for some things and they’ve poured money into it apparently. - ATL November 25, 2025, 18:34:53
  - I told my kid Pedo State is the one place I’d not pay for. - nash November 25, 2025, 17:39:02
    - One of my friends is sending his daughter to Indiana - Sounder November 25, 2025, 18:03:37
    - I can understand that * - ATL November 25, 2025, 17:59:04
  - How is he at yelling "WAR DAM EAGLE" at any random time/place? * - osklister November 25, 2025, 16:33:46
  - I didn’t realize any places gave decisions this early. Sprout has applied EA to MD, Georgetown… - DT November 25, 2025, 16:28:05
    - My kid loved Maryland. - nash November 25, 2025, 17:37:59
    - The four he was admitted to as rolling. When I applied schools like Illinois and Michigan used it. - ATL November 25, 2025, 16:40:37
      - Then there are the low tier schools that emailed telling Sprout he was in. Just needs to apply…* - DT November 25, 2025, 16:41:36
        
        Yeah we have several those. KSU is the only one he applied to just to ensure he got in somewhere. - ATL November 25, 2025, 16:45:12
it's all open growth plates.* - VIV November 25, 2025, 13:03:39
Wasn't Alabama offering free tuition to OOS kids with a 4.0 or better a few years back? - haighter November 25, 2025, 13:02:33
- It was for a 32 Composite ACT that I know of... - SurfTheBoneyard November 25, 2025, 19:34:37
- My daughter received the UA Presidential Scholarships - jfinsocal November 25, 2025, 17:53:57
- Delete - jfinsocal November 25, 2025, 17:53:57
- That was a while back. I’d heard second hand that they’d scaled that back a lot, but IDK.* - DT November 25, 2025, 16:29:30
  - ATLsidejack—speaking of SEC schools, I was surprised how high Florida is in most rankings now - DT November 25, 2025, 16:39:36
    - IMHO the rise of the superscore and grade inflation makes it impossible to compare our era to now - ATL November 25, 2025, 16:42:40
      - Plus it recentered in the late 90’s which adds 80-100 points - DT November 25, 2025, 16:45:05
        
        mini bombed the SAT but did very well on the ACT especially with the superscore. - ATL November 25, 2025, 16:47:00
        
        Georgetown requires you to submit all your test scores. MD might, too. - DT November 25, 2025, 16:53:51
        
        Illinois too but they then superscore you independently* - ATL November 25, 2025, 17:18:35
- 2 years ago, Diglet1 received $30K in scholarship from Alabama. Not sure if - OWWDig November 25, 2025, 13:50:22
- Don't know. Will have to see. Ga Tech would be free for in state kids who can get in - ATL November 25, 2025, 13:48:45
  - I’m a ramblin’ wreck from Georgia Tech - Sounder November 25, 2025, 13:50:04

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