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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say it's interesting to learn that 25% of a Sidwell class (with a 3.85+) manages to go through 4 years without getting a B.

If that many are able to master the curriculum like this then lowering the grading bar just hurts these top kids and muddies the waters for their admissions. 
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Strictly speaking: You could offset some B+ grades with A grades and still end up at 3.85. But, as such, yes: 3.85 is excellent. Of course, Sidwell is still being hurt a bit, in my view, not by lowering the bar, but by keeping it as high as it is.  A 3.85 kid at Sidwell or similar schools in DC should be doing very well in admissions to the very top schools (HYPS). But, this is generally not the case. [/quote]

If you have 6 classes in a year and get 5 straight As and one B+ you already fall to a 3.83.

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3.83

And that means you never even had an A-.  A 3.85 allows tiny room for any error  [/quote]

Yes, very true. My personal opinion: This is why top schools don't worry about variations around 3.85/3.9. You hardly want to penalize kids for one bad grade..or some risk they took. Once you clear a basic GPA threshold, other application factors take over. [/quote]

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