If a high school had 70 kids with a 4.0...

[evilnewbie]

Originally Posted by golfgal

If a high school had 70 kids graduate with a 4.0 what would you think about that school? How about on that only had 2 kids with a 4.0?

If 70 kids had it, it must be an easy school or comparable to one of those "internet" schools.... if only 2 kids, then it must be a school that doesn't grade on a curve and be tough or a school with a lot of slackers...

[NCyank]

Originally Posted by evilnewbie

If 70 kids had it, it must be an easy school or comparable to one of those "internet" schools.... if only 2 kids, then it must be a school that doesn't grade on a curve and be tough or a school with a lot of slackers...

Or, as others have pointed out, it might be a school that offers a lot of weighted honors and AP courses with students who work hard and have A-B averages in those classes.

[debzkidz]

Originally Posted by 540_804

I had a GPA north of 4.0 in high school. There were only 5 of us.

Our undergraduate class was only about 400, though. If 70 people got 4.0 or above..that would certainly be strange.

On the other hand, the high school that my siblings went to had like 40 "Valedictorians." (They named anyone with a 4.0 a valedictorian..lol..it was one of those schools.) Their graduating classes tended to be around 300....so I immediately suspected grade inflation. Not saying it occurred...just saying it was suspicious.

That's how the school my sons ended up graduating from did it too. Really strange. As best I can tell, all of the schools in our current state do it this way. At least everyone I've talked to indicated that that's how they thought it was suppose to be done. Uh, NO!