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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell.

The English and History Departments’ grading is especially ridiculous! Math 1 to 4 (particularly 3 & 4) is equally ridiculous, and Chem 1A is pure, unadulterated nonsense. [/quote]

Sidwell parent from 3 years ago. This PP nailed it. Obv I can’t compare to other schools my kids didn’t attend but very tough, honest grading is very real at Sidwell.

My kid and all of their close friends at Sidwell are finding grading curves much kinder at their current colleges, which include Brown, Yale, Vandy, Cornell, Swarthmore. The possible exception is Chicago.  Not that these ^^ schools don’t ask a lot of questions- they do - but if you put in the extensive work then college grades seem higher. My kids friend group is balanced between STEM and humanities majors now fwiw[/quote]

PP. edit to say these current colleges ask a lot of their [b]students[/b], not questions. My kid is assigned 1000 pages of reading per WEEK some semesters. Which he can do, because Sidwell 🤣

But when he does it and does it really well and better than his current classmates, he doesn’t always get a B [b]because the DSA female must always be given the lone A in that class[/quote][/b] Explain?[/quote]

There are at least two humanities teachers at Sidwell (or were, i think one mat have retired) who bestow a single /A/ grade per class.  That /A/ grade coincidentally is received by a female who tracks with the national DSA platform.

The kids all talk among themselves so they figure out who got the straight A vs. an A- or B etc.  [/quote]

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