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[quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of good information coming out in this thread (thanks, former college admissions people); let's keep it civil and constructive! I don't know about number conversions, but remember the original NCS mom posters wasn't making any inflated claims -- she said the 3.48 range GPA put her daughter in the top third of the class, if I recall correctly. It's a fair point that most public schools do weight averages and most of the local independent schools don't; and that most public schools have a big buy-in to the AP system and that really varies in independent schools, which often don't like to be tied into the AP curriculum, etc (for example, most juniors at St. Albans take the AP US History exam, but the school does not offer an honors or AP US History section). It's also true from what I've seen that St. Albans, NCS, and Sidwell in particular have been pretty resistant to grade inflation even apart from the non-weighting. [/quote]
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