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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one of the main reason parents pay for private school. They will make sure your child has every EC opportunity. That plus grade inflation + poetic recommendations = T20 admissions.[/quote]

Ummm, privates don’t have grade inflation. And good luck making a spot on the team where basketball has 6’10” freshmen recruits and football top NFL prospects, baseball an MLB straight out of HS. That’s our private. [/quote]

Ummmmmmmmm, yeah, right. [/quote]

Yeah, whatever.  Show us the evidence that your privates don’t have grade inflation.  You can start  by linking to the distribution of grades published by your school on its website for its college profile, because of course, you private is transparent about its outcomes, right? [/quote]

Top privates don't have many kids clustered around the top. At our school of 80, you had zero kids with a 4.0, about 5 kids with a 3.95+, 5 more with a 3.9+, 10 more with a 3.85+ and on down to about a 3.0.

This makes it very easy for colleges to differentiate between kids based on GPA alone (and his is how they distinguish between them).

It's different then a public which may have a few dozen kids who have an 4.0 UW or a 4.5 W or whatnot.

NOT saying that public kids aren't as smart or accomplished or anything. SO CHILL OUT.  Just that the way grading is done at private schools, it's easy to differentiate between kids on grades alone and having 15 top extracurriculars isn't needed.

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