College kickstart

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Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

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Following..... my DC tried to use this and schools listed do not align (at all!) to experience of current Senior peers at school with similar stats/Ec's.

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Anonymous wrote:Following..... my DC tried to use this and schools listed do not align (at all!) to experience of current Senior peers at school with similar stats/Ec's.

How so?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Can you stop commenting this on every thread. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Schools certainly look at the rigor of a student’s class work, most colleges list it as one of the top factors they look at. Ratings that don’t take this into account aren’t going to be the most accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Can you stop commenting this on every thread. Thanks.

I’ll stop posting it when people stop acting like GPAs over 4.0 are real and meaningful. Post the real GPA and # of honors/AP classes but enough with the lame weighted crap.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Can you stop commenting this on every thread. Thanks.

I’ll stop posting it when people stop acting like GPAs over 4.0 are real and meaningful. Post the real GPA and # of honors/AP classes but enough with the lame weighted crap.

None of us care, we just ignore you. Rigor of coursework is definitely something schools consider.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Schools certainly look at the rigor of a student’s class work, most colleges list it as one of the top factors they look at. Ratings that don’t take this into account aren’t going to be the most accurate.

Colleges do but as a separate metric, not as part of the gpa.

When there is no standard amount for how much weight to give some classes, or even which classes get the extra points, and when as many schools don’t weight grades as do, it’s an absolutely meaningless number. You give the gpa, the # of advanced classes and that’s it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Can you stop commenting this on every thread. Thanks.

I’ll stop posting it when people stop acting like GPAs over 4.0 are real and meaningful. Post the real GPA and # of honors/AP classes but enough with the lame weighted crap.

None of us care, we just ignore you. Rigor of coursework is definitely something schools consider.

Of course Colleges consider rigor - as part of the overall application - but they throw out weighted GPAs and only factor GPAs on the standard 4.0 scale. Colleges also dont use weighted GPAs in their published numbers. Ya know why? Because only losers who are insecure about where their kid goes to school drone on and on about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

Can you stop commenting this on every thread. Thanks.

I’ll stop posting it when people stop acting like GPAs over 4.0 are real and meaningful. Post the real GPA and # of honors/AP classes but enough with the lame weighted crap.

None of us care, we just ignore you. Rigor of coursework is definitely something schools consider.

Of course Colleges consider rigor - as part of the overall application - but they throw out weighted GPAs and only factor GPAs on the standard 4.0 scale. Colleges also dont use weighted GPAs in their published numbers. Ya know why? Because only losers who are insecure about where their kid goes to school drone on and on about it.

UVA and W&M both published 4.4 average GPA of incoming freshmen in their CDS, so they are using some kind of weighting. It’s probably not what the high schools use, and may not even be the same between them, but I feel pretty confident colleges do weight certain classes more.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with this website? Our school uses to generate lists but seems of limited utility since it uses unweighted gpa and does not otherwise account for level of rigor, and not school specific for historical admissions. Maybe I am missing something about its value?

OMG. Nobody uses weighted GPAs - colleges certainly don’t. It’s worthless. Nothing above 4.0 matters. Are you unaware that how some grades are given additional points isn’t even the same in some states amongst different county school systems? And the best privates and boarding schools don’t add extra weight to grades in honors/AP/advanced classes at all? Weighted GPAs are a ridiculous gimmick of pretentious suburban public schools.

UMD does.

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UVLA also uses a weighted average.

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Anonymous wrote:UVLA also uses a weighted average.

Ucla

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Anonymous wrote:Following..... my DC tried to use this and schools listed do not align (at all!) to experience of current Senior peers at school with similar stats/Ec's.

How so?

I haven't seen it myself, but it the impression I got was something like:

"I feel like I am doing something wrong in College Kickstart because every school is giving me the same low chance of being admitted, whether it be a Top20 school or a school outside of T100."

My thoughts were like OP....is there something else you haven't filled in yet?? ...so following this thread with interest to pass onto DC.