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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gds is rigorous if the kid wants it but let's lots of kids slide. [/quote]

I disagree.  GDS is an amazing school which consequently has the strongest of reputations among the most selective college admission offices.[/quote]

The prior poster is accurate wrt GDS being as challenging as the kid makes it.  There's an immense amount of difficult work to be done, depending on course selection and the kid's own motivation and standards.  And A's and A+'s can be hard to come by, depending on the teacher.  OTOH, A smart, strategic kid can blow a fair amount off and still end up at a good college.  Which, actually, isn't that different from what I experienced at Harvard -- though my sense of how grad school admissions worked out for kids who graduated with B+ averages from Harvard is more anecdotal.  I never saw a complete list of outcomes there, but I have seen a few such college matriculation lists for GDS.[/quote]

This is exactly right.  There is a group in every class that want to get A's (which requires a lot of work) and those are the kids who will embrace the pressure-cooker, take the most advanced classes and get into the top schools ED.  It is not hard to get all B's at GDS and then ride the coat tails of those super achievers into a good college/university.  It is also hard to get C's and D's at GDS.  They don't allow the kids to fail (after the 9th grade) and give multiple opportunities for kids to make up work and retake tests so they can bring their grades up into the B range.  Seems like a strategy that is working really well for the school as their college placements are excellent.[/quote]

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