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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] I had a kid in each. In public school a very smart kid would have to work for As, but could get a B without much effort. But the very smart kids really didn't get many Bs so they were working pretty hard. Cs were not unusual for less smart or less motivated kids who were maybe taking AP classes when they shouldn't be. In private school my DC had to work harder for Bs, but Cs were more unusual. The other big difference was that in public school, at least in MCPS, it was not unusual for kids to be taking 7 academic classes at a time, with 4-5 or more APs. In private school it was more like 5 academic classes and typically fewer APs. On balance public school GPAs are probably higher for equivalent kids. But that's really irrelevant because college counselors are comparing apples to apples, not blindly comparing private school GPAs to public school GPAs. And in the competitive public schools the kids are working plenty hard.[/quote]
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