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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC applied from a Big3 school this year and the SCEA schools as well as several other Ivies (Brown, Penn) definitely just took the highest GPA applicants.  If there were 3.97s in the mix, they took them over the 3.89s every time.  There was no "well the 3.89 has better extracurriculars" at all.  [/quote]

NP - I’m curious how is this calculated? DC is at a private where no one has a 4.0. All the top kids have at least 2-3 A- or even a B+. Will it matter to top colleges if the A-was in freshman year. There are 5 kids all have the same top GPA but some A-/B+ come from 9th vs 11th, or do they just look at the reported GPA? [/quote]

Poster you're replying to. 
Are you sure that everyone has a handful of A minus and B+ grades?  And how do you know that there are 5 kids?

At my DCs' Big3 there were no 4.0s but there were about 6-10 kids with a 3.95 or above.  I don't know exactly and I'm not sure how anyone would. it's strange that you know there are 5 kids with the exact same GPA in the class.  College counseling actually told you this?

That said, let's say that you are correct and there are 5 kids with the same top GPA and they are applying to the same colleges.  Then they will likely be differentiated by the rest of their application--extracurriculars, rigor, etc.  I don't think any college that views all grades 9-12 is going to care when an A minus was received vs.when a classmate received one.

My experience is again with a cohort of 6-10 kids with a 3.95 or above.  When these kids applied, the kids with a 3.80 or 3.90 did not get into the same schools 100% of the time.   The colleges always took the higher kids. [/quote]

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