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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College counselor here - I wish APS did a better job of educating families and students about what colleges care about, and this is. not. it.

a) Selective schools are looking at unweighted GPA and b) rigorous courseload. Dropping middle school classes to bring a 4.4 to a 4.5 or whatever is more likely to make a school think something went very wrong in 8th grade.

So much about the grade inflation at APS results from bones administrators have thrown to parents, over the course of decades, who think they're doing their kids a favor by trying to game this out. It truly will not make a positive difference if you drop As from a middle school transcript. [/quote]
100% agree with this.  Every district calculates GPAs differently.  I remembered being shocked at the high GPAs coming out of Montgomery County, thinking that kids were taking 15+ AP courses to get their GPAs that high.  I then found out that in MoCo, kids get a GPA bump from not just APs, but from "honors" and "intensified" courses as well.  This is why colleges use their own methodology to calculate GPA -- each district does it differently and some inflate GPAs more than others.[/quote]

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