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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]

And the idea that the regional admissions person is "familiar" with schools sounds like you think the regional admissions person wants to have kids admitted from "their" schools.  So I don't really know that having a person who "knows" the school is that advantageous.  Especially in this region, with a zillion kids applying, the regional admissions person is probably looking hard for kids to cut out, weighted GPAs or not.  At least for those schools hardest to get into.

I'm guessing the rules of thumb change a lot if you're Harvard vs. Bates vs. Bucknell (and lower).
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