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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do the colleges look at? And how do they weigh raw GPA vs. weighted for admissions?

I've asked a million times, including at the school and i get a "it depends." I get that but what am I supp'd to do with that information? For ex., I'm looking at the College Confidential, Niche, UNNWR, etc. that lists the stats for incoming classes. And lots of them, even ones I would not have thought, are 3.8-4.0. Fine. But is this weighted? Unweighted?

Take a kid who had all A's in HN level classes. Now is in al APs/DE and is getting some B's. Do colleges want to see the increased "rigor" (which is what we were told) and some Bs or all A's in Honors classes? This is not for ivy level schools but good schools of the variety Lehigh, Colgate, etc. Weighted GPA looks great but unweight is likely to go down some at the semester (like, 3.7'ish . .. . don't really know b/c the teachers don't like to enter grades to I'm going on the work I've seen and few grades entered). Kid is also an athlete and lots of ECs.

And before you say it, we have LOTS of safeties on the list. 
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The simple (unhelpful) answer anyone can give you is that kids taking the most rigorous courses and getting all As will do the best. After that, it is in the lord's hands.[/quote]

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