Independent School GPAs

[Anonymous]

Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

That is not the norm among schools by a long shot.

[Anonymous]

No inflating in private school. Sorry no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

So what you’re saying is that Holton inflates. Private schools across the board definitely do not.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

NCS sent more than half of the class of 2024 to top 25 National Universities or top 25 liberal arts schools. Pretty good!

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Anonymous wrote:Much depends on where you are applying. Originally we planned to send our DS to UMCP after independent upper school. Unfortunately the grade deflation made it impossible to gain admission. Bear in mind that the very large schools and state flagships (even out-of-state) do not really have time to “holistically review” all apps. I’m convinced they are just sorting apps by GPA. With the huge run-up in apps since the pandemic, schools have had to get creative to wade through tens of thousands of applications.

PP here again. The good news is that our kid, an average to middling student at his Catholic high school, truly excelled in college, completing a dual major in four years and graduating with high honors and a fantastic job offer with a top employer. So while it was anxiety provoking to see him struggling with a 2.6 during his junior year in HS, he learned early on about college-level expectations, and he benefitted from a lesson in humility.

I would not trade his HS 3.4 final GPA for an inflated 4.3 from a public HS.

It sounds more like he needed to mature. I'm glad it worked out for him.

[Anonymous]

You do realize how many private schools there are in this area don’t you? There might be 5 to 7 that don’t inflate and three that deflate, but the rest might just as much as any other place or maybe just grade in different ways such as let people retake tests or turn in homework late, or other means that might increase the average grade which doesn’t happen at the vast majority of private or public schools across the country. For instance, there are some private schools that allow you to ask the teacher if you can take a test another day or turn in a big project a day late because you have a sporting event or tournament , and the teacher agrees to it. that is not something that most school experiences include.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

NCS sent more than half of the class of 2024 to top 25 National Universities or top 25 liberal arts schools. Pretty good!

no, Holton is much better. NCS with no one to UVA, UNC, USC, NU, etc.
I know many girls who tried this year. Shut out from these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

NCS sent more than half of the class of 2024 to top 25 National Universities or top 25 liberal arts schools. Pretty good!

Isn’t that typical of top DC area private schools? Aren’t the results similar (or better) at GDS, Sidwell, and Holton?
Who knows about STA…

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

NCS sent more than half of the class of 2024 to top 25 National Universities or top 25 liberal arts schools. Pretty good!

no, Holton is much better. NCS with no one to UVA, UNC, USC, NU, etc.
I know many girls who tried this year. Shut out from these schools.

That’s weird to assume they want to attend those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

NCS sent more than half of the class of 2024 to top 25 National Universities or top 25 liberal arts schools. Pretty good!

no, Holton is much better. NCS with no one to UVA, UNC, USC, NU, etc.
I know many girls who tried this year. Shut out from these schools.

That’s weird to assume they want to attend those schools.

huh? I have a kid in the class and she and many of the girls wanted to attend those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No inflating in private school. Sorry no.

I teach at a DC private. There is ABSOLUTELY inflation. A lot of it is a result of parents who push and push and nickel and dime every point until the teacher is just plain too exhausted to fight. And if admin won’t back you up, well, we have a finite amount of emotional energy for this.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are inflating grades too, despite what people like to say here. To fall in the bottom quartile at Holton you have like a 91 average. That’s crazy inflated.

Really? Wow. THAT's why their college placement is so much better than placement at NCS!

NCS sent more than half of the class of 2024 to top 25 National Universities or top 25 liberal arts schools. Pretty good!

no, Holton is much better. NCS with no one to UVA, UNC, USC, NU, etc.
I know many girls who tried this year. Shut out from these schools.

That’s weird to assume they want to attend those schools.

huh? I have a kid in the class and she and many of the girls wanted to attend those schools.

given that uva and UNC are state schools that favor in-state apps and require high gaps for the small number of out of state applications they accept it is not surprising. Nor is USC unless they ED, and NU is a hard admit also with ED and in general requires a higher gpa than may NCS girls are able to get given the few As that are given out in some cases. People think that just because they got to a fancy and difficult upper school that it translates into college application acceptance across the board. Ed still matters as does high gpa if applying to schools like UVA. They get thousands of applications. NCS girls applications don’t smell any different than the others. All the same rules apply.

[Anonymous]

Does giving extra assignments to get bonus points count as inflation too? I’m not familiar with schools here or in the US generally (my child is still in K), but I’ve heard of private schools outside of the DMV doing this.