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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the answer varies from one school district to another.  In MCPS, it is only semester grades (not quarter grades).  But other districts may do things differently. [/quote]

This seems inherently unfair.  It's possible that two students could both have a final grade of an A, but one student had a B and three A's which averaged to an A, and the other student earned A's each quarter.  The colleges wouldn't know that one student actually made all A's on each report card. [/quote]
There are plenty of differences among high schools.  One of my kids' schools reports +/- grades, so 92 = A- = 3.67, whereas my other kid's school, 92 = A = 4.0 (where A = 90-100, so the kid with the 98 can't show that).[/quote]

And this is exactly why colleges should not do away with standardized test scores. They are they only equal measure across the board. GPA is essentially worthless and can be affected by so many different variables and opinions. [/quote]

BUT grades are more predictive of future success than Std test scores. So your argument makes sense logically but doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.[/quote]

I’m guessing that study was done before the “everyone gets an A” culture crept in. [/quote]

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