Anonymous
Post 10/28/2024 12:50     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
According to everyone I talk to at our DC Private their kids are all getting straight A’s and scoring 35/36 on the ACT. Is this not the case?
Anonymous
Post 10/28/2024 00:00     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:Most elite private schools have a mandate to set the median grade within a predetermined range. Some schools are very conservative, and set the median grade at a 88-89/B+ Some schools might have it at 90-92/A-. However, there's an expectation that only the best students in a particular section get the top grade of A or A+

What this means in practice is that students are competing against each other. Work that would easily receive an A at a public school instead receives a B+ because it's not the best essay in the section.


I had a teacher (Catholic HS) explain that if most of the class got As it meant he wasn't challenging them enough, which meant they weren't learning to stretch their minds. Very few get As.
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2024 23:57     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:Most Sidwell students would have a 4.0 at every other school. Fact.


sure.
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2024 08:07     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:Most Sidwell students would have a 4.0 at every other school. Fact.


Laugh. DCUM has such dry humor.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 18:33     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Most elite private schools have a mandate to set the median grade within a predetermined range. Some schools are very conservative, and set the median grade at a 88-89/B+ Some schools might have it at 90-92/A-. However, there's an expectation that only the best students in a particular section get the top grade of A or A+

What this means in practice is that students are competing against each other. Work that would easily receive an A at a public school instead receives a B+ because it's not the best essay in the section.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 17:51     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:Most Sidwell students would have a 4.0 at every other school. Fact.

No wonder Sidwell is so overrated and their boosters so insecure. They don't know what is a fact.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 11:42     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:Most Sidwell students would have a 4.0 at every other school. Fact.


Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 10:25     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do you know everyone’s GPA? Do you go around asking? Are parents introducing themselves as “hi, I’m Timmy’s mom, he has a 3.4.”



Once you get access to SCOIR or Naviance you can see GPAs from the class before yours.


Only the kids who agree to have their info on SCOIR. There fixed it for you.


At our school, students don’t get to choose. The only time the school will exclude SCOIR data is if there were very few admits/matriculations, over a 3 year period, to a particular school so that it’s easy to identify the student.

This is true for our school as well.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 08:57     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Most Sidwell students would have a 4.0 at every other school. Fact.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 08:55     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do you know everyone’s GPA? Do you go around asking? Are parents introducing themselves as “hi, I’m Timmy’s mom, he has a 3.4.”



Once you get access to SCOIR or Naviance you can see GPAs from the class before yours.


Only the kids who agree to have their info on SCOIR. There fixed it for you.


At our school, students don’t get to choose. The only time the school will exclude SCOIR data is if there were very few admits/matriculations, over a 3 year period, to a particular school so that it’s easy to identify the student.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 04:03     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do you know everyone’s GPA? Do you go around asking? Are parents introducing themselves as “hi, I’m Timmy’s mom, he has a 3.4.”



Once you get access to SCOIR or Naviance you can see GPAs from the class before yours.


Only the kids who agree to have their info on SCOIR. There fixed it for you.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 23:33     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:I graduated from NCS with a high 2.-something. I don’t remember the actual gpa, I’ve blocked out much of the experience.


I did too at a very similar DMV school- ended up with a JD from a T5 law school. In the end, all will be well for the vast majority of these kids.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 18:41     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:IDK. My DC graduated from one of the privates in upper NW relatively recently. DC's transcript had more A+s than A-s so I guess the GPA was over 4.0. According to DC, there were students who were better/more advanced in every single subject so they did not think they were so special.


In your case, you will convert it to 4.0 scale. For example, A+ = A, A- = B+, etc. So, 4.0 in your case is equivalent to 3.7.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 17:06     Subject: I have never seen in private high schools ...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:IDK. My DC graduated from one of the privates in upper NW relatively recently. DC's transcript had more A+s than A-s so I guess the GPA was over 4.0. According to DC, there were students who were better/more advanced in every single subject so they did not think they were so special.


A+? That’s not a Big 3/5 high school.
I don’t think the OP had your type of private school in mind when she posted.


Such a snob.