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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Completely anecdotal from my DD's school over the past few years... assume $ isn't a factor because then it is a different game.  This is reflective of a typical UMC unhooked student (did not include the student with Cs who is now at Stanford due to parental sway and boat loads of $$$$$ etc.

A student: Ivies, MIT, CalTech, Williams, Amherst etc.

A/B Student:  Michigan, William & Mary, Pomona, Bowdoin, Ivy Specialty Schools(I.e. Cornell Human Ecology, Upenn Nursing etc.), Wellesley, Lehigh, UCLA etc.

B student: Bates, Colby, Hamilton, BC, BU, Oberlin, Mcallister, Carleton, Scripps, Pitzer, Spellman, GWU, Washington & Lee, UT Austin, Villanova, Wisconsin, USC etc.

B/C student: Pepperdine, SMU, College of Charleston, Elon, High Point, Clark, Conn College, Trinity, Dickinson, Denison Muhlenberg, Ithaca, Lewis and Clark, UDel, Drexel, American, Kenyon, Rollins, Random southern state schools (Ole Miss, University of South Carolina, UGA)[/quote]

I would switch a lot of the B and B/C schools.  I'd say that BU, GWU, Villanova, Wisconsin, and Tulane are where B/C kids from our private go, along with Rhodes and Sewanee.  Kenyon and Trinity are more of B student schools.  I'd reserve places like Pepperdine, SMU, College of Charleston, Elon, High Point, Clark, Conn College, Denison Muhlenberg, Ithaca, Lewis and Clark, UDel, Drexel, American, and Rollins for the kids who really got a lot of Cs.  Our school rarely sends anyone to any of these schools and trust me, our school gives A LOT of Cs and Ds.

I also think A- students can be classified more like A students.  [b]STA does not even give minus grades![/b][/quote]

People get confused by the St. Albans grading system, I think.  It maybe would be an advantage if they only used letter grades with no minus grades.  However, if a student is a B minus student the colleges will know it, because the Upper School Semester and final grades are in numerical form.  Quarter grades are in letter form and they don't use minuses.  But a student with quarter grades of A and a final year grade of 90 is (a) obviously an A minus student in the mind of the admissions officer reading the transcript (easily distinguishable from a classmate with a final year grade of 94 or 96 or 98); and (b) has a transcript that can easily be translated into a 4 point GPA scale by conversion of the numerical grade.

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