TJ - Rising Senior GPA Question

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats. If you look at Naviance - 4.4 basically makes you competitive for any of the T20-30 schools. It will now depend on other parts of the application. SAT score for eg

OP here - thank you very much. Do not know how to read Naviance - but will look around !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ requires almost all honors courses (weighted 4.5) and tons and tons of AP and post AP classes weighted 5.0. So, a 4.4 reflects that.

Agree most of the classes at TJ are honors (4.5) level. The AP/Post-AP are [u]not a requirement in most cases (except for Calculus AB or BC). So a 4.4 weighted is towards higher end and may be top 100 kids (20%).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's going on at TJ that a 4.4 is only top 30%?

What's a 3.9 GPA... bottom 5%?

Talk about grade inflation. What a joke.

Top 30% is not 30th percentile you dumba$$. No one knows the exact number so they give a conservative range. Your brain is too small to participate in any meaningful conversation.

Hey jerkweed, you're the only one talking about percentiles. Try to follow along.

If a 4.4 gpa for a junior at TJ is only top 30% then the TJ grading system is an absolute joke.

Or the kids there are pretty smart.

You can’t make blanket statements like this with the rising seniors on down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's going on at TJ that a 4.4 is only top 30%?

What's a 3.9 GPA... bottom 5%?

Talk about grade inflation. What a joke.

Top 30% is not 30th percentile you dumba$$. No one knows the exact number so they give a conservative range. Your brain is too small to participate in any meaningful conversation.

Hey jerkweed, you're the only one talking about percentiles. Try to follow along.

If a 4.4 gpa for a junior at TJ is only top 30% then the TJ grading system is an absolute joke.

Or the kids there are pretty smart.

You can’t make blanket statements like this with the rising seniors on down.

I'm not saying there hasn't been a drop in average student quality but that is just on average.
The biggest drops are at the bottom of the class.
The top 20-30% of kids there would probably still have gotten in under a merit based system.

I'm not saying that they are all smart but when 70% of the kids have high GPAs from schools that are sending more than the minimum number of kids to TJ, a lot of

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ requires almost all honors courses (weighted 4.5) and tons and tons of AP and post AP classes weighted 5.0. So, a 4.4 reflects that.

Agree most of the classes at TJ are honors (4.5) level. The AP/Post-AP are [u]not a requirement in most cases (except for Calculus AB or BC). So a 4.4 weighted is towards higher end and may be top 100 kids (20%)

Is this true.

[Anonymous]

Is this true

Agree most of the classes at TJ are honors (4.5) level. The AP/Post-AP are not a requirement in most cases (except for Calculus AB or BC). So [b]a 4.4 weighted is towards higher end and may be top 100 kids (20%)[/b]

Is this true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this true

Agree most of the classes at TJ are honors (4.5) level. The AP/Post-AP are not a requirement in most cases (except for Calculus AB or BC). So [b]a 4.4 weighted is towards higher end and may be top 100 kids (20%)[/b]

Is this true.

It’s true that 4.4 is a high end GPA at TJ but not because of that reason. Students try to take as many APs as they can. It’s just that not everyone will get an A.