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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you begin to standardize GPAs? My one kid goes to a DCPS high school where he is getting a 4.7 (4.0 unweighted) for pretty much breathing. My other kid goes to NCS where she has done about 5 times the work of her brother for an unweighted 3.6 (and there is no weighting for honors or APs beyond this and limited APs even offered). [/quote] +1. We see similar differences between my kids' high schools (kid A had 3.4uw/1500, kid B 4.0uw/1550). Moreover, even kids in the same high school take different courses and teachers. It is simply not possible to standardize GPAs, even though most in this forum and the entire college admissions world treat GPA as though it were a standardized metric. Lots of song and dance about considering kid's transcript in the context of the high school, and how well the AOs supposedly know each school, but it just isn't true to the extent people think. Ultimately, GPA is not objective. It's fuzzy.[/quote]
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