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[quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why colleges with tens of thousands of applicants would eliminate pluses and minuses from grades and then believe it is a better apples to apples comparison is beyond logic and belief. You're actually decreasing the probability of getting appropriate apples to apples comparisons among students even within the same school.  You're reducing differences among students whose admission should and does depend on relatively small differences.  Standardized tests are precisely what affords the best apples to apples comparisons.  Professors at these universities should set admissions criteria and take the blob of adminstrations right out of the university.  What nonsense.[/quote]

The answer is because a lot of high schools do not use pluses and minuses for grades, so you are getting a better comparison across schools.  But yes, within the same school or school system it would be better to take them into account. With regard to Stanford and the UC system, I believe the driver is that most Cal public schools do not use pluses and minuses.[/quote]

Exactly… not everyone uses plus and minus. Some places an A is a 90 and elsewhere it’s a 93. Some schools weight honors classes and some only AP. Colleges have to standardize all of that. [/quote]

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