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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher at a DC-area independent school and have seen grade distribution charts of a number of local schools as part of an internal study on grade inflation.  There is no question whatsoever that NCS does not significantly inflate grades.  They also have very high board scores for this area.  So the parent who identified her daughter with a 3.5 GPA as being in the top 33% of the class, and scoring highly on the SAT, comes across as very credible to me.  I get that it's an anonymous board and anyone can say what they want, but I just wanted to weigh in (anonymously!) that a 3.5 GPA in the top third at NCS is absolutely consistent with what I've seen of the aggregate data.

Aside from what I've seen in terms of grade distribution info, I had a college friend with a daughter at NCS who had about a B+/A minus average, I think 2150 on the SAT, but scored close to a perfect score on the ACT (which they were surprised by -- some kids do better with that format and NCS had advised her to try the ACT, and they were glad she did).  She got in to some excellent colleges.  More importantly (turning on the preachy thing here) she felt like she got a great education along the way and she's doing wonderfully in college.

So, I don't teach there and don't have a child there, but ask any educator in this area (or, I suspect, college admissions personnel at selective colleges), and they will speak very highly about NCS and the quality of its students.

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