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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]It's not what it used to be, [/b]but I understand that's a hard pill to swallow if you've paid private tuition for many years.[/quote] This part is true-I wonder though if private school kids are on average more equipped to do the work than their public school counterparts once they get to college. Everyone just focuses on getting in but there is also Staying In and doing well-very different. [/quote]

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