Or, to put things another way – when you cut through all of the details, the parents & plaintiff in this case wanted the transcript to reflect all A’s in math on her college apps. Having sophomore grades of C, C+ and junior grades of A-, B+ was not a good thing in terms of college admission.
The school entered an agreement where they promised to review the grades but did not promise any outcome
So the end result was the student had a transcript submitted with a C, C+, A, B+ and the student also was not admitted into the reach colleges where she applied. It probably is true that her grades were a factor, especially if she was applying as a prospective engineering major and competing against other Sidwell students who had all A’s in math.
But it wasn’t a breach of contract because Sidwell had never agreed to change all the grades to A’s in the first place.