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[quote=Anonymous]I'm starting this to respond to a comment posed in another thread.

[quote=Anonymous]A few corrections. Colleges look at unweighted GPAs, not weighted GPAs, so the GPA number that matters still maxes out at 4:00. Colleges don't expect more than 8-9 AP classes from public school kids, and maybe 4-5 AP classes from private school kids. And what public school, where, has 60 valedectorians?[/quote]

I just did a little research, and it looks like colleges are all over the map on what GPAs they count.  Many articles say colleges look mostly at unweighted GPAs to compare students from different schools, but look at weighted GPAs to compare students from the same school or to truth-check a student's class rank.  One outlier: one article says that Michigan ignores unweighted GPAs, and only looks at weighted GPAs, for any schools that weight.

Some high schools have many valedictorians ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/education/27valedictorians.html?pagewanted=all

44 - http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002336475_garfield15m.html
25 - http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/16/one-high-school-25-valedictorians/
41 - http://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/06/high-school-with-41-valedictorians.html

Sounds like clear grade inflation to me.  I guess if teachers are going to inflate the grades of so many students, there's no reason to even have a formal weighting policy.  I guess that's a good argument for using standardized SAT and AP scores to truth-check the grades.[/quote]

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