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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of people who post their kids' stats are showing GPAs well over 4.0 and I'm curious about the timing. My senior has taken seven AP classes and has gotten As in all but one of them and otherwise has straight As through high school, but the GPA is 4.19 at this point. When people are calculating GPAs of 4.3-4.5 or more, are they including the anticipated senior grades at the end of the year? Or did their kids take a lot more AP classes over the summers? I honestly can't figure out when my son could have taken any more AP classes. There were five on his schedule junior year. He's taking more APs this year, but that will affect his ultimate GPA, not the one he uses when he applies for college.

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The common data set the schools use is the GPA at graduation, so the GPA at the time of the application can be in the lower percentile because it is expected to rise. You are kind of locked in for how high the GPA can go, the trick is to minimize the number of classes that top out at 4.0.[/quote]

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