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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has there always been this discrepancy btw public school and private school GPA? What accounts for it? Grade inflation? Size of class?[/quote] Both. Mainly class size. If you have 500 kids in a class, you can give As to 100 students without looking like grade inflation, even if it is. If you have a class of 125, then giving As to 100 students looks like grade inflation, even if it isn't. You have to have a distribution of grades; everyone can't get As, so in a small school, you end up seeing kids with 3.5 GPA and 1490 SAT.[/quote] Keep telling yourself that. The kids I know in public have landed at just as competitive schools as those in private. In many cases, well beyond. It's not what it used to be, but I understand that's a hard pill to swallow if you've paid private tuition for many years.[/quote]
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