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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The list exists even though it is not posted for all to see. [/quote]

I once asked my child's advisor ("Form Master") about the "Head's List," since an advisor in a prior year had referenced it in the cover comments on the report card.  The latter year advisor said that each year in the Upper School meetings to talk about student progress there is good natured commentary among the faculty about advisors saying that their advisees are "on the Head's List" because there is not actually such a list.  (The advisor assumed it existed at an earlier time, and also said that they'd been told that a Headmaster in the 1950s era would read all of the student grades out, with commentary, in the dining hall ("Refectory").)  But advisors use it in faculty meetings as a shorthand for saying "this group of my advisees has all As and Bs."  This particular advisor said that they wished people wouldn't mention it to parents because the advisor would get feedback "why didn't you mention my kid was on the Head's List" (which, yes, I was sort of doing at the time! which is why I remember this so clearly) and have to explain that it's a figure of speech and not the equivalent of a formal Dean's List.

No GPA appears on the report card (although of course colleges can compute it from the grades) and St. Albans doesn't rank, but they obviously know internally where students are ranked because there are awards on Prize Day each year for the top 1-2 students in each grade, and then senior year the top 20% (I think?) are inducted into the Cum Laude Society.  So the closest thing there ever is to a public list is the Cum Laude Society list which comes out in the spring of senior year.  [/quote]

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