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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holton gives Cs. [/quote] big time - they don't sugar coat it at all. They make you work for your grades. [/quote] You people do realize the public schools routinely give C's, D's and F's? How can anyone assert that high grades are more difficult to earn from privates, when from reading this forum, it seems that many schools are reluctant to give out C's. [/quote] There are actually two separate questions here -- one is how stringently the A/B distinction is policed, with the claim/assumption being that Sidwell, GDS, NCS have higher standards for earning some form of A than (some) local publics do. That could be true while, at the same time, it's harder to get a C at such privates than it is at the same local publics. Basically, schools with selective admissions (public and private, HS and universities) tend to use truncated grading scales and are more interested in differentiating among degrees of excellence than among degrees of mediocrity. Public schools with non-selective admissions, by contrast, serve students with a wider range of abilities and may see their job as making distinctions at both ends of the spectrum. My guess is that there is a very wide range of Bs at elite private HSs. that was certainly true at the 3 elite private universities where I studied and/or taught. B+ work was very different from B work which, in turn, was quite different from B- work. Basically, almost all students were competent-- but some did work that was promising, others did work that was solid, and others produced work that was adequate. Maybe more of the kids doing adequate work "deserved" ZC's, but given both the challenging level of the work and that B-s already meant downward mobility wrt future admissions, it wasn't really clear whether harsher grading was legit or served any useful purpose.[/quote]
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