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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My own college admissions counselor told me most colleges would adjust my GPA upward based on the prior strong performance in college by graduates of my high school.  Do colleges really do this in a formulaic way?

I probably would be tempted to do this if I were a college admissions office but it would have a negative impact on high performers from weak high schools.

(Maybe someone should develop a standardized test to compare individual students who come from widely varying high schools.)[/quote]

Colleges - in general - are like other business and know the value of data.  They understand how students from certain HS perform better and use that in their decisions.  Whether that manifests as a direct upward adjustment of a specific GPA would depend on the college, and I have not heard to that method specifically happening.  But knowing that an A at Stuyvestant is not the same as an A at an ordinary (but fine) small rural HS is definitely a method.[/quote]

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