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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS with a 1530 (800 math 739 english) and great ECs was denied. SAT optional world has really shifted things. Also it’s tough when your school doesn’t weight the gpa for rigor.[/quote]

As the parent of a private school kid (privates don’t give extra weight to certain classes) it’s not a factor at all. [b]First, colleges ignore weighted gpas. [/b]They want the unweighted and then list of AP and/or honors classes from all applicants. The weighted gpa is a gimmick designed by public schools to attempt to make their students look better. Since all schools that give extra points for some classes do it differently (some give .5 to an AP class, some give 1.0) it is absolutely meaningless. Dont sweat it PP. [/quote]

High schools that rank their students do so via weighted GPAs. And it’s not “a gimmick public schools do to make their students look better” ( :roll: :roll:). At my high school there were kids taking Algebra II as seniors while kids in the same grade were taking linear algebra. Gee, I wonder why weighted gpas would be necessary in that case.

I know you think you can buy everything, but you can’t. [/quote]

I don't think you understood the PP's post.

The colleges all calculate things differently, so yes, obviously the student taking linear algebra will be seen as taking a more rigorous course than the one taking Algebra 2. That said, the colleges apply their own weighting, not dependent on what a high school weights.[/quote]

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