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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids at Sidwell, for example, would have more than a 4.0 GPA with APs and honors classes at a public school. If rigor is seen as a virtue, and differentiation important, why not just make the GPA scale out of 5.0 (as some NE boarding schools do) to reflect that these are highly selected students being made to work very hard?

Wouldn’t help the top 10-20% who already do well in college admissions - but would help the 60% in the middle (potentially at the expense of the 20% at the bottom).  The 3.6 with 1550 sats kid getting into Tufts or BC is now a 4.5/1550 kid with a shot at Columbia or UCLA.

The reason not to?  Because the market demand for the big3 is high.  No need for these schools to innovate (on the relatively short time horizon of a HOS) - multiple applicants for every place with the current product offering.[/quote].

I agree.  I think one benefit of private school is the real ability of colleges to see who is where in the class.  (It harms public school applicants that they lose this ability.)  But it really disincentives the harder/ap/honors coursework.  I mean, of course you need some, but I do think not giving a gpa bump means the calculus becomes: where am I most likely to get As.  So that our child for example will take honors/apps in classes child expect to do very well but is very reticent to take them in classes where they feel this is riskier.  And for colleges I don’t think it matters so long as you can tell a narrative like: I’m not going to be an engineer so I focused on my time on the other hard thing.  [/quote]

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