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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand.  If it “takes blood, sweat, and tears to earn a 3.9 at NCS,” how did so many NCS girls go to ivies? It’s not adding up.  What is the gpa at NCS for ivy admit?[/quote]

3.7 hooked
3.9 unhooked[/quote]

How many 3.9 unhooked?  5?

Large droves of NCS girls go to ivies and ivy plus, are they all hooked?[/quote]

There were 11 Ivies this year out of 85.  [/quote]

How many out of 11 are unhooked? [/quote]

3 categories:
-unhooked and top 20% student 
-hooked and top 20% student 
-hooked and not top 20% student

Roughly you could put 1/3 of the 11 in each category. Same as any strong private. [/quote]

Is the top 20% cut off approximately at 3.9 gpa?[/quote]
Definitely not. Maybe 3.7-3.8.[/quote]

It's hard tell because the cum laude society is the top 20% but is based only on soph and junior year grades.  the cut-off for this is generally a high 3.8/low 3.9 but there are girls with overall higher GPAs (across all 4 years)who don't make it because they had lower GPAs during soph and junior.  So it's unclear[/quote]

So it can be established that about 20% have a gpa approximately 3.9 based on sophomore and junior.  The percentage could be higher if considering freshman grades.  In total it is likely there are 25% obtaining a gpa of 3.9.  [/quote]

The 20% is more like 3.85+.  Some years higher.  Some of the cum laude girls have an overall lower GPA than non cum laude girls because freshman year brings them down.  [/quote]

That is a pretty normal distribution.  
Makes me think "blood, sweat, and tears" is kinda exaggerating.[/quote]

No,not an exaggerarion.  Top 20% is more like 3.7+ most years. That’s actually pretty low. NCS girls do okay in admissions because many are hooked or have wealthy parents paying $$$$ for tutoring, test prep, private collect counseling that includes essay prep, and for activities that make them pointy.

To get the real cost of the grade deflation you’d have to look at the impact on the girls whose parents can’t afford all the extra support needed to be in the 3.9+ range. [/quote]

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