Not likely. There is usually grade inflation at such schools. When you are paying big money, everyone gets a trophy.
You would think that there is serious grade inflation in private schools but it isn’t always true.
My kid went to a Top 200 private school. From Preschool to 12th grade.
He is now at a Top 30 college.
It is mainly public high schools that are doing the grade inflation. And where they do it is with AP and Honors classes. All those classes, at most schools, give kids a 5.0 out of 4.0 for an A.
Take a few of them and you get a 4.2 GPA.
At my son’s school, AP courses were like a tough college level. You could barely do a couple due to the homework load.
But we know public school kids who couldn’t hang in at son’s school that were taking 5 AP courses, doing sports, and working at Walmart or fast food jobs, yet still got straight A’s in their APs.
They could make it to a medium local college but weren’t accepted to upper public colleges because the colleges knew that a 5.0 public gpa was inflated much more than a 3.6 at a Day School.