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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:01 is correct.  Each college and university can weigh the GPAs however they like.  They can remove the gym classes.  They can allocate more weight to hard sciences.  They can remove drivers ed, etc.  They can screen out all soft electives.  They can take off points a private school that the local admissions rep knows has grade inflation and add for a GPA from a tough public school like T.J.  Everything is computerized so the college admissions can seek out whatever it is they think is valuable and fits a particular desired class composite.

The highest GPAs run up to 6.0, which is absurd.

Langley High had over 60 valedictorians last year.  I can only assume it is everyone with a 4.0 or more.  I really don't know.  They each get to wear a medal.

15 AP courses in public is not unheard of, although rare.  I asked what Fairfax County's record for Oxford was.  The one recorded student who applied from the county and was accepted had a 4.8 GPA and 15 AP courses.[/quote]

"Weighing" grades like you are using the term is not the same as "weighting" grades.  What really matters is how well a student does vis--vis other students from their same high school.  No college wants a school filled with just the kids from Langely.  The grade inflation caused by AP and Honors weighting is ridiculous, but pretty meaningless.  Colleges can figure it out.  I don't even think there are 15 AP classes at DC's private.  Many kids going to Ivies take far fewer.  Once you get past 12 or so, you start getting into AP fluff like Art History and Psychology, anyway.  Our private sent a student to Oxford last year and I can assure you she had fewer than 10 APs.[/quote]

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