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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason kids from Sidwell ( and a few other schools in DC that grade stringently) get into very competitive schools with Bs is that the colleges know about grade deflation at Sidwell.  Competitive colleges and universities have a formula that they use to adjust grade point averages up or down and these are marked on the admissions folder prior to it being read by the admissions officer. Also the admissions officers themselves know what grades mean from these schools.  There is another thread in which this process is described in some detail.[/quote]

+1.  It would probably be more informative to ask about admissions for the middle deciles or the lower half of the class distribution.[/quote]

+2 Although B students who attend a school like Sidwell with harsher grading standards would probably be admitted to most of the schools on the "B student" list (though I, too think Carleton & W & L need to trade places on these lists with Lehigh), B students from many schools -- both public & private --would be unlikely to get admitted to most of the schools on that list without a significant hook.[/quote]

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