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I may have been a little flip  but I'm really thinking about the top academic private schools where the environment is highly competitive.  I purposefully didn't refer to GDS - while it's a high caliber academic institution, it does not have the high level of competition that exists at Sidwell, NCS and STA.  I say all of this as a parent of kids at some of these schools and as a graduate of one of these schools.  GDS for instance is well known to have the best college counseling in the area - that school makes a huge effort to get smart but underperforming kids in to good colleges.  I don't mean toO make sweeping generalizations that disparage public schools. I just think that there is a very large group of kids at private schools would have a stronger academic record even at Whitman or its peers. For instance, private schools don't give 4.5's for an A in an honors course.  The highest GPA you can get is a 4.0. [/quote]

The fallacy here is that colleges compare the GPAs of kids at private schools that dob't give A+s with kids at public schools that do.  The colleges are familiar with the grading system at each school and look at the applicants within the context of their current school.  They don't compare GPAs from different schools with different grading systems.[/quote]

I disagree. I think there is a lot of grade inflation at public schools (driven by local and federal government policies). A kid who is a B student at a private school can often be an A student in public.  [/quote]

What are you basing this on, do you have a kid in public HS or is this more your opinion? Because DC and friends at Sidwell, top area publics compare notes and DC thinks the opposite is true. There's no top school admin official in DC, MoCo or VA issuing edicts to teachers to hand out A's. But private school teachers have to answer to private school parents who don't want that C to keep Johnny out of Cornell. I've seen that dynamic in action....[/quote]

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