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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree, OP.  There definitely is a sweet spot in terms of admissibility to most schools.  A 3.8 (unweighted), 3-5 APs, and a 30/1300 will get you into the majority of schools out there, and there is a lot less pressure on these kids to get into a top 20 school (which is a crapshoot no matter what your stats are).[/quote]

What percentage of kids have a 3.8 unweighted Gpa? When i went to school 40 years ago, that was quite probably top 5%.[/quote]

Hear, hear.  Everyone thinks their Larla/o is an unmatched genius.  HS grades are inflated and SATs have been diluted down. E.g., a 1450 SAT today equates to something like 1380 back before they went to 2400 scale. Never mind that standardized tests correlate most strongly to HHI.

And in many school districts a 4.0 is the most common GPA (and, yes, I know that is different from the average GPA).  Almost everyone agrees grade inflation is happening, but apparently only at “other schools.”   It may be heresy, but we should just eliminate reductive letter grades since they don’t mean much (they actually never did as far as I’m concerned) and have narrative, qualitative evaluations.  We had universities for >1000 years without letter grades, which are actually fairly novel.  They were invented to create less work for teachers actually, not as a benefit for students.[/quote]

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