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  • BaphometBaphomet Member Posts: 1,511

    PurpleJ said:

    Beating my face in repeatedly with a blunt object >>>> Undergrad academic talk >>>>>>>>> High school academic talk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cal>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Spooge


    FMFYFE

    Cal is way too damn low.
    If we are talking Cal academics... they shouldn't be anywhere near that low.
  • OZONEOZONE Member Posts: 2,510
    Lots of good places in the Bay Area for seaplanes.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,521 Standard Supporter

    Baphomet said:

    Those athletes are lucky as hell to get a free ride to Lakeside. It is a great education, even if you are only getting a 2.0 as the article reported for one of them. A 2.0 at Lakeside is like a 3.5 at a public high school.

    Look at this dumb motherfucker here who has never heard of grade inflation.
    More like purchasing grades at private schools.

    $20k per year don't buy a 2.0. That's $3k per year territory.

  • allpurpleallgoldallpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    HFNY said:

    I had a friend who went to Lakeside and they definitely don't have grade inflation. He had just a 2.8 GPA there but scored a perfect 800 math score on the SAT while I knew someone else who went to O'Dea, got a 4.0 and scored barely a 1200 (back when it was out of 1600).

    Garfield is getting better at academics because of rising property values surrounding it (thanks to gentrification). Some long-time residents around there hate it because it's not diversity on their terms. Fuck them.

    If I had the money to send my future kids to Lakeside, I've heard it's awfully expensive now. Might be more worth it to send my kids to Garfield, Roosevelt, or Franklin (depending on where I live) and then use 1/5th the money on private tutors.

    Well your sample size of 1 is certainly enough to convice me.

    Or maybe the 2.8 GPA kid was just really good at math and didn't work that hard. And maybe the O'Dea kid worked really hard for that 4.0 but just wasn't that smart.

    Or you definitely proved there isn't grade inflation because one guy got a 2.8.

    Either way.
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Baphomet said:

    Baphomet said:

    Those athletes are lucky as hell to get a free ride to Lakeside. It is a great education, even if you are only getting a 2.0 as the article reported for one of them. A 2.0 at Lakeside is like a 3.5 at a public high school.

    Look at this dumb motherfucker here who has never heard of grade inflation.
    Attend Lakeside. Then pop off.

    If you don't warm up woodchips for power and attend a "little Ivy" then you've wasted your Lakeside education.
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    “I’m going to open up a foundation, and we’re going to get black people in here,” Ballmer declared, according to Gordon’s testimony from March.

    Interesting comment from the guy who bought an NBA team because of the previous owners racist comments. More proof that the league just didn't like Sterling and used it as an excuse to push him out. In private, they don't give a fuck about racism. Wet water.
  • HFNYHFNY Member Posts: 5,117 Standard Supporter
    Fair point but if there was grade inflation at Lakeside and then their students didn't do well on their standardized tests (which sniff-outs grade inflation), they wouldn't send a lot of kids to top 25 schools.

    In football terms, it's akin to a coach saying a lot of his guys run 4.4 - 4.5 40's and then come game time, that speed is nowhere to be found.

    Basically, when it comes to academics, Lakeside has the sizzle AND the steak.

    HFNY said:

    I had a friend who went to Lakeside and they definitely don't have grade inflation. He had just a 2.8 GPA there but scored a perfect 800 math score on the SAT while I knew someone else who went to O'Dea, got a 4.0 and scored barely a 1200 (back when it was out of 1600).

    Garfield is getting better at academics because of rising property values surrounding it (thanks to gentrification). Some long-time residents around there hate it because it's not diversity on their terms. Fuck them.

    If I had the money to send my future kids to Lakeside, I've heard it's awfully expensive now. Might be more worth it to send my kids to Garfield, Roosevelt, or Franklin (depending on where I live) and then use 1/5th the money on private tutors.

    Well your sample size of 1 is certainly enough to convice me.

    Or maybe the 2.8 GPA kid was just really good at math and didn't work that hard. And maybe the O'Dea kid worked really hard for that 4.0 but just wasn't that smart.

    Or you definitely proved there isn't grade inflation because one guy got a 2.8.

    Either way.
  • BennyBeaverBennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Baphomet said:

    HFNY said:

    I had a friend who went to Lakeside and they definitely don't have grade inflation. He had just a 2.8 GPA there but scored a perfect 800 math score on the SAT while I knew someone else who went to O'Dea, got a 4.0 and scored barely a 1200 (back when it was out of 1600).

    Exactly. Going to Lakeside and getting *good* grades will get you into any school you want, Harvard, Brown, MIT, etc (assuming your test scores are good and no other issues).

    I doubt Garfield's AP kids can claim that yet.
    You have no clue what you are talking about.
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