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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But not all schools weight transcripts.  Typically private do not, nor do they necessarily designate honors courses.[/quote]

Colleges know this, and typically have their own way of 'recalculating' GPA against their own standards. For example, they know that junior year English at Sidwell is very rigorous even if it isn't called honors or AP, or weighted.

Every application a student sends is accompanied by an information sheet produced by the college counselor that contextualize the applications. These are standard forms that are not customized for certain students.

The school report includes:

-- the courses available and the typical course load of students there (so colleges can tell whether a student is taking an average/more challenging/less challenging course load
-- which, if any, courses are weighted and if so, by how much
-- average GPA of the student's class
-- what extracurriculars are available
-- average SAT/ACT
-- class rank (or if the school doesn't rank)

Trust that UMd and every other college is aware of which high schools weight courses and which do not. And they have a method of normalizing this across its applicant pool.

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