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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell.

The English and History Departments’ grading is especially ridiculous! Math 1 to 4 (particularly 3 & 4) is equally ridiculous, and Chem 1A is pure, unadulterated nonsense. [/quote]

Sidwell parent from 3 years ago. This PP nailed it. Obv I can’t compare to other schools my kids didn’t attend but very tough, honest grading is very real at Sidwell.

My kid and all of their close friends at Sidwell are finding grading curves much kinder at their current colleges, which include Brown, Yale, Vandy, Cornell, Swarthmore. The possible exception is Chicago.  Not that these ^^ schools don’t ask a lot of questions- they do - but if you put in the extensive work then college grades seem higher. My kids friend group is balanced between STEM and humanities majors now fwiw[/quote]

Heard from a Sidwell transfer to our school (isn’t totally apples to apples because the kid obviously didn’t do the exact same grades at each school) that our school is slightly tougher on grading.  One anecdote but alas.  [/quote]

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