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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lets clarify the prior entry. Some kids at STA do get straight A's, but they need to be very bright and very hard-working to get those results. Other kids get mostly C's and a few B's. There is a normal distribution and there is NO grade inflation. Current kids are compared against the achievement of former graduates, not just thier current classmates. [/quote]

Is it true that high schoolers still get into top 20 colleges with more than one c on their report cards?  Are these mainly recruited athletes?[/quote]

Sure - and some STA boys with no C's end up at schools like Indiana because that is the best fit for them.  About 20% of the typical graduating class will end up in "Top 20" colleges - which seems to be higher than any other school in the area - though most don't publish matriculation stats.[/quote]

With the caveat that these kids are getting into college on their own merits -- they were bright and talented when they got to high school -- the above numbers are actually low.  For at least the past 5 years, 20% or more of the graduating class has gone to the Ivies/Stanford.  St. Albans has a graduating class of 75 most years, so 15 kids matriculating at the Ivies/Stanford is 20% of the class.  If you expand the list to "top 20 schools," pulling in places like Duke, UChicago (both of which rank higher than the Ivies on a number of charts), Northwestern, etc., then the percentage of the St. Albans class going to a "top 20 school" is considerably higher than 20%.  [/quote]

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