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I don't know what other schools or districts do in these cases when you have a few extreme outliers.  The kids at these top privates are almost all very strong students and were admitted to the private (most of them) because they were at the top at their sending schools.  But in each subject there tend to be few kids who is outlandishly gifted.  And then they scoop up the 2 As in that class.  [/quote] In theory what you describe makes sense but the grading in math, science, English and history courses at many of the competitive schools is not black and white. There is truly nothing to distinguish an A in these classes, the rubrics are built to be extremely opaque and grading (if the child even gets them back in a timely fashion) seems to be entirely subjective. I don’t object to a teachers right to teach a class as they see fit, but when students call out inconsistent grading and the teacher can’t provide a legitimate reason[b] or the students are labeled as grade chasers[/b] (and in some cases see their subsequent grade go down) then it needs to be addressed. Sadly the latter outcome forces students to stop speaking up and suffer through the class. But go teachers![/quote]

I'm sorry, "grade chasers" is an absolutely nuts insult. Of course they care about the grade. They want to go to college! It isn't 1983 anymore, where you can get into Columbia with a transcript with five C's from NCS or STA. There was an era where these elite prep schools could deflate grades just to instill humility into their students but rest assured the Ivy League would still admit them because of their exceptional preparation. That era ended over 20 years ago.

A 3.3 GPA from these schools is treated the same as a public school by admissions officers now. There is no more prep school "bounce". Now that universities are test optional, GPA is so much more important than it was 25 years ago.

The issue with these prep schools is that they still operate like it's 1983 and that the counselors can "work the phone" to place 5 students into Harvard, Yale, Princeton each and then let the slackers with 3.1 GPAs end up at Penn, Dartmouth, or Duke.

Top private schools are not only hurting your kids with grade deflation, attending one is seen as a negative nowadays because universities care about social justice more than anything else, and these elite private schools signal economic privilege.[/quote]

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