<p>40 nerds in the entire school. We all hate those people. They are mostly comprised of Asians and day students. Actually, I can't think of a single person who isn't one or the other. If you want a 6.0, you have to focus on almost nothing else, honestly.</p>
<p>Wait, actually -- I can think of one exception. But he's godlike, so that totally doesn't count.</p>
<p>I am the person who started this thread and am interested to see the discussion, especially now that I have heard some discussion among SPS students after they got their grades. As a parent, I don't have an issue with SPS's grading and especially think it is a very good thing that SPS does not differentiate within/above an HH, which is hard enough to achieve in most classes. The most outstanding students in each subject get recognition anyway. The students seemed content with the grading system and to think they mostly got the appropriate grade - except when they got an 88/89 H or 78/79HP and their grade looks the same as someone's who got an 81/80 or 71/70! Sometimes students knew their "average", or that number before the final, and sometimes they just knew they got a particular letter. From what I heard, they all agreed that which teacher you had impacted the grade because of differences in grading and teaching. (As an adult, I think this is true everywhere.) I see that the grading scheme at Andover is similar to SPS's, but with one more slice.</p>