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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GPAs are evaluated in the context of the school, not across different schools.  AOs absolutely track how well-known and academically rigorous the school is.  Elite and well known private schools produce top performers in colleges, and AOs know.

It's oversimplified to say GPA doesn't matter in private schools, or public school kids had it easy.  AOs are not comparing two groups of students, they are evaluated in their respective schools.[/quote]
I agree that AOs evaluate in the context of the high school. I disagree that they necessarily have a good handle on grading - too many variables for grading (different course selection, different teachers for the same course), with many AOs being young, high turnover in the field, etc. In other words, I don't think AOs know as much as they think they do about high school grading. And frankly, I think a good deal of transcript interpretation is now handled by AI and/or algorithms.[/quote]

Yes.  Don't apply to schools where AOs are not familiar with your high school.  If your elite high school only sent a few in history to X college, avoid it.

Also, LOC comes into play to explain a lower grade.  Your DC may have a B+ in a highly rigorous math course but the teacher thinks he is the smartest student ever taught in her career.  That helps, a lot.[/quote]

Yep. and a good LOR can provide genuine support for a niche major in a way that the rest the application can't. [/quote]

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