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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Transplant_1]My understanding is that college admission offices often / try to have a sense of schools grade culture, so have a sense of what an A means at an high grade inflation school, vs. a low grade inflation school.  Also, my understanding is that grade inflation is a problem across the country, and so colleges don't "trust" grades as much, which is why score on APs have become more important over the past years / decades, and why kids are now taking 5 - 10 - 12 APs, precisely because college rely on them more as they are a national standard.  So..... the grade inflation does give kids a false sense of safety, which will hit them hard in college.  But, in the end, they still have to focus on their APs.

So..... does it really really matter.  I'm not being snarky.  Just trying wondering.[/quote]

Anything that increases randomness matters.  When grades are useless, motivation to get good grades and the feedback value of grades are undermined.  When top colleges don't know how to evaluate students at a school, they just move along.  And making the only point of distinction AP tests just really reduces the whole high school experience.

Nobody wins. [/quote]

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