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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there an issue with grade deflation at Sidwell or GDS?
If not, that further disadvantages NCS when its graduates are compared to graduates of other top DC privates.[/quote]

Not familiar with Sidwell, but in my experience its not easy to get a 4.0 or anything close to it at GDS either. I would assume Sidwell is similar. GDS seems to gatekeep more than NCS in order to put student in the best position to maximize or improve their GPAs. For all the complaints above about NCS removing APs (they have not), it feels to me (and this is just anecdotal) that more students at NCS take a language AP, multiple science APs and AP Calc, whether it be AB or BC.  Those are hard classes and they can torpedo a GPA, and make it harder to do well in the non-AP humanities courses that are quite challenging. At GDS they were very cautious about who they let take those classes, and which they were allowed to take at the same time. Rigor was only worthwhile if you could do well, and if you were not looking to go into a STEM field or Engineering, they really asked you to think long and hard as to whether the risk was worth it. In our experience they did this in a way that left the kids feeling good about themselves and knowing they were being put in a position to be successful and play to their own strengths. Again, this is the sense I had having had kids at both schools, and having had good experiences with both. It is really hard to do well at NCS, but everything feels dire in December, and things do tend to brighten up by Spring. Outcomes in May look very different than in December.[/quote]

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