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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our high school, consistently ranked amongst the Top 50 public high schools in America (of approx. 20,000 high schools), has finally caught up to the times and discontinued publishing the GPA range of our senior class in the school's 2023/2024 profile. Previously, the school profile indicated that our students were not ranked, and that there were no other forms of academic recognition (e.g., Valedictorian); but [b]the profile provided GPA ranges that were being used by AOs to effectively cap admissions of the school's unusually capable pool of applicants[/b]. Finally, reason has prevailed and the school district trustees have intervened to ensure that our counselors would no longer be doing the dirty work for schools insistent on capping admissions.[/quote]

People are always trying to find a way to claim they were wronged because their kid didn’t get accepted to a competitive college.

They didn’t get in because there are thousands of kids applying. It wasn’t because if a GPA range being published.
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People are always trying to vilify standardized testing b/c their kids aren't "good test takers", too. That's life.

The fact of the matter is that AOs can try to do whatever they want, but unnecessarily opening the kimono with grades ranges essentially enables them to cap admissions from your high school. And how is that a good thing for anyone associated with that high school?[/quote]

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