Q) Back in Minnesota, Edina may join a growing number of schools that no longer officially rank studentsa move that could help students like Zalasky, who says he was told by Wisconsin his class rank makes him a longshot. They feel theyre being left behind or not getting into the schools that theyre applying to because of a particular class rank, says Edina counselor Bill Hicks. And there is some validity with respect to some certain schools that use certain formulas.
R) But the colleges most popular with Edina students already know how strong the school is: students median verbal and math SAT scores are 1170 out of 1600. Hicks isnt willing to blame the concentration grades at the top on spineless teachers, or on grade-grubbing by parents and students. Expectations are high, and grades are based on student mastery of the material, not a curve. Wherever teachers place the bar for an A, the students clear it.
S) Everyone here is like, if I can get a 98 why would I get a 93? said Lavanya Srinivasan, who was ranked third in her Edina class last year. Far from being pushovers, she says, Edina teachers are tougher than those in a course she took at Harvard last summer. Zalasky agrees the students work hard for their high grades. The mentality of this school is, if youre not getting straight A,s youre not doing well, he said. Theres just so much pressure on us day in and day out to get straight As that everybody does. Hicks compares the atmosphere at Edina to the World Series expectations that always surround the superstar lineup of the New York Yankees. If they dont win it, he said, then its failure.
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