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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NCS has a brand of being intellectually rigorous. Easy As would ruin the brand.
Nothing wrong with picking an easier school for your daughter.
Maret, Burke, St. Andrews, Holton, etc., all do very well with college admissions [/quote]

It's admissions results this year are FAR worse than those posted by Maret, Burke, St. Andrews, and Holton (and Landon and even Field)---none of which have grade deflation to the degree that NCS does. 
So it's brand of "intellectual rigor" is not working with college admissions.  It's not working at the elite schools and (this year) it's not working at the schools ranked from 50-150 (girls are getting denied left and right).
What is NCS going to do in May when it has a whole bunch of girls who can write a perfect essay, can critique any piece of literature with ease but are shut out of colleges?[/quote]

But it’s just a hypothesis that it’s rigorous grading that hurting admissions.  Perhaps other aspects of NCS aren’t considered favorable these days.[/quote]

well the girls are doing worse than those at Holton and Madeira and Stone Ridge and Visitation and none of them have the grade deflation that NCS has.  
If you do the work at Stone Ridge or Visitation it's quite possible to get straight As.  At NCS (in some classes) you can do the work well, stand on your head, wave your magic wand and still get a 89% 
because the teacher is only granting one A in the class.  [/quote]

And you know the teacher "gives" only one A how? You sound unhinged.[/quote]

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