A Plan to Kill High School Transcripts … and Transform College Admissions

londondad
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:25:29 +0000

@exlibris97 Good points. Just to point out that the UK has already changed their exam grading. Last year, my son had a number of friends (around 5) who had 4 A-stars on their A levels and did not get into any top 10 US Unis (they are all happy at Cambridge though). This year, my daughter who is arguably as good a student as my son’s friends might only get 2 A-stars (plus 2 A’s) on her A2 exams, due to much harder marking schemes. Similarly at GCSE level where all of DD’s friends got between 9 and 11 A-stars, next year the grading is 1 - 9 where a 9 is the old A-Star. The tests are expected to be both more difficult exams plus will be graded more harshly. The Dept of Education has publicly stated that only 1 or 2 kids in the entire country are expected to receive all 9’s. It will be interesting to see whether US Unis will pick up on these changes as the GCSEs and A Levels should do a better job of highlighting who the truly gifted UK students are.