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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question is "why is grade inflation so rampant at most schools?"

My kid goes to a similar (boarding) school with no inflation and "real" grades.  The grading here in the schools is a joke--just read all the parents posting about 10 APs and GPAs of 4.5 or whatever.  Some schools have more than 50% of their kids with As.  The bell curve is dead.[/quote]

There is another thread posting grade distributions of the top LA and NYC private schools showing that 70% of those classes are scoring A- or higher.

Nearly all the top 10 colleges award As to ~50% of the class.

At some point clinging to some rigid grading system appears a bit pointless.[/quote]

Yes, the schools that follow strict grading (or deflated grading or whatever you want to call it) are getter fewer and fewer.

And as college application numbers continue to rise, it seems like they have less interest (and time) to understand that B's at NCS are the norm for excellent students, that a 3.5 GPA is quite strong, etc. [/quote]

I would imagine it is probably the leading cause of student/family stress at these schools and can be fixed in 2 minutes.  I honestly doubt any teachers would really care that much if told that you will curve every class and X% get an A, X% A-, X% B+, etc.  Teacher does not have to change how they teach or how they score...just implement the curve and done.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question is "why is grade inflation so rampant at most schools?"

There is another thread posting grade distributions of the top LA and NYC private schools showing that 70% of those classes are scoring A- or higher.

Nearly all the top 10 colleges award As to ~50% of the class.

At some point clinging to some rigid grading system appears a bit pointless.[/quote]

Yes, the schools that follow strict grading (or deflated grading or whatever you want to call it) are getter fewer and fewer.

And college admissions would sky rocket.  At this point in time admissions are dipping further each year.  NCS (for example) has rested on the laurels of it's crew team for way too long to garner Ivy admits.  Well this year there aren't any (or maybe 1?) kids that will row in college at all.  So expect a significant overall Ivy drop..probably to a tiny handful.  Meanwhile Holton (which is just as rigorous but with far more reasonable grading) had arguably the best college results in the DMV last year. They basically got the entire grade into top 50 schools.  NCS had far more mixed results and almost no one to top schools outside of the crew kids and those in the top 10% of the class (i.e. those with GPAs above 3.8ish).  Lots of girls were shut out from second tier public universities (let alone the top tier).  No-one at these large universities has the time to deliberate how much really goes into an NCS 3.3.  They just click "no pile" and move on. [/quote]

I’ve read many times on this forum that families do not choose private schools for college outcomes. Am I right? [/quote]

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