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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. These comments are so helpful. Thank you. I have heard that Sidwell's grading system is tougher than GDS's. Do you think this is true? Also, I heard something about Sidwell not calculating GPA and/or class rank. Don't colleges want this info? Tia[/quote] I don't know about GDS's grading, but at Sidwell, in upper school, the average grade is a B. In certain classes higher (they don't grade on a curve in accelerated science, for example, so the kids who self-select for the harder course end up with B+ as the average grade), in some classes lower. My Sidwell DC, with a lot of friends at GDS, thinks GDS has a broader spectrum of learners but that the work is comparable. Sidwell hasn't done class rank since the early 80's. They don't do GPA either, but accelerated courses (in math and science) are listed that way on the transcript, so colleges can do the calculation themselves.[/quote]
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