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[quote=Anonymous]Nearly anytime anyone uses “all” or “none” in relation to a school, it is an (accidental) exaggeration, simply because there can be so much variation within/between/among the top 10 local privates.

My sense is that many people here (certainly not all) would agree that many (Again, not all) of the top-10 metro DC privates have very little grade inflation.  There are probably at least 2-3 which have a degree of grade deflation.

That said, many privates include a “school profile” to colleges along with the applicant’s grades and such.  Those profiles often, not always, include some indication of the median GPA.  A competent college admissions person pretty quickly can figure out if there is grade inflation/deflation at a school from that median GPA number.

The college admissions person also often will guess or estimate (correctly or not) an applicant’s quartile class rank from the school’s profile information if the school does not provide an explicit individual class rank.

Fictitious example: If the median GPA were a 95/100, the school clearly has grade inflation.  If the median GPA were an 80/100, with a minimum passing score of 70, then there really isn’t grade inflation.[/quote]

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