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[quote=Anonymous]At the private schools with which i’m familiar, no one gets a 4.0. Most use a 60–100 grading scale on which 90 is an A-.

Grades at the private schools follow a normal (~Gaussian) distribution such that the top student is usually around 95 or 96. [b]About 20% of students have averages 90 or above. Another 25% lie between 85–90. About half are below 82–83.[/b]

[b]About half of the students averaging above 90 earn admission to the Ivy League. The remaining half of these students enrol at USNews&WR top 15’s.[/b]

[b]Students in the second tier (85–90) send a quarter to a third to the Ivies.[/b]

A means to compare a 4.0 at a public school to high grades at a private school is to compare their respective college admissions. I use an index derived from USNews&WR rankings. I count the number of grads who enrol at the USNews&WR top 15 universities and top 15 Liberal Arts colleges. At my children's private school, this was consistently a third of the class. At some more selective private schools, this index is well over 50%.[/quote]

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