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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally irrelevant.  Or at least mostly irrelevant.  College admissions offices are familiar with the schools in this area, they assign a specific admissions person for the area.  So if one school weights GPA they will look at the GPAs for all the students there knowing that but not comparing them to an unweighted GPA at another school, where they will know that the other school doesn't weight.  Many schools don't rank but they don't need to because the colleges are looking at the applicants in context, a context they know.

They would only be looking at a GPA blind if they had an applicant from a school they were unfamiliar with.  I can't see that happening in this area.[/quote]

Actually, most schools report both the unweighted and the weighted GPAs. At least, it's done this way across MCPS.

I agree the regional admissions person is familiar with area schools. But this makes it sound like the regional admissions person is making the final selection, drawing on knowledge of specific schools to interpret GPAs. But this isn't consistent with what we heard from colleges, which is that the regional person makes an initial cut, and then students from across the country, many different regions with thousands of schools the admissions committee can't be familiar with, are compared using their own GPA reweighting system. [/quote]

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