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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These schools do nothing-[i]nothing[/i]-if it doesn't improve their competitive position for college admissions. Any big change they contemplate has to be viewed through that lens.

They are abandoning grades because it will make it harder to perform apples-to-apples comparisons between their students and graded programs in public schools. All that admissions offices will have to go on will be 1)"portfolios" of academic work that can only be assembled through a labor-intensive instructional model more like personal coaching than regular teaching, and 2) extracurricular resumes packed with the sort of activities unavailable to a poor or middle class student focused on academics: "I see here that little Brimsby/Muffy/Preston/Chip/ founded an NGO and went to Peru to provide aid to earthquake-displaced capybaras. How enterprising!"

There was a time when simply graduating a "Philips Academy man" will be enough to demonstrate you were "Harvard material". We seem to be headed back in that direction.[/quote]

This.  With college admissions more scrutinized and changing this all has to do with potentially dwindling ROI for private.[/quote]

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