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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I too am fascinated horrified that everybody seems to know the grade point averages of the kids who get into the most exclusive schools. And is it really so important that someone has a 3.8 compared to a 3.7? I would like to think that what matters to a college is more than a decimal point, which could be due to a weak paper somebody wrote while they were sick or in a sports tournament, or to one teacher being a harder greater than another. maybe this is my naïve bubble of my oldest kid being in seventh grade, but please tell me that junior and senior year are not filled with this level of grubbiness for kids and parents at private schools.[/quote]

uh, the high schools give all parents of juniors/seniors the GPA/test scores of every kid who applied the previous year to each university and was accepted and every kid who applied and was rejected.  It's not something parents go looking for--it's given out. 
And yes, you can look at the data (as it's graphed out) and there are definite "lines in the sand" when it comes to GPAs.  Most universities don't admit below a certain GPA.  For many top universities the line is around a 3.8.  Sucks to be you if you had a harder teacher or you were sick or whatever.  Life isn't fair and some kids will learn that lesson in high school.  [/quote]

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