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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wonder if all these schools don’t want to continue AP classes because then it would show how much they inflate grades. Kid gets A’s in the class and then doesn’t pass the test = school looks bad. Kid studies and takes the AP exam on their own and doesn’t get a high score = no fault on the school’s part. [/quote]

+1 inflated grades[/quote]

PPs clearly know nothing about Holton.[/quote]

There is a lot of grade inflation at Holton.  Everyone knows about it and is fine with it.  It only becomes an issue for college process when parents are surprised that those same high grades mean nothing because every other girl has the same high grades. [/quote]

Hmm...I am not sure about your definition of grade inflation. A senior with 93/100 is in the top ten percent of the class. [/quote]

One subject where the grades are wildly all over the place in upper school is English.  A few teachers are fairly easy graders and one in particular is a VERY difficult grader.  My DD had the hard grader in 11th grade sadly and her English grade suffered. As a senior she had close to an A+ with another teacher.  I wish it had been reversed.[/quote]

It's so frustrating. I don't have many real complaints about Holton but this is one of them. DD had a very hard grader this past year in 9th. Fingers crossed for the remaining years. At the very least it should be consistent across the grade.[/quote]

I would tend to trust the grade from a teacher who is a more rigorous grader than from a teacher with students whose grades are close to an A+. [/quote]

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