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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dont colleges know that a 4.0 (w) from TJ is equivalent to a 4.5 or so from a non -TJ HS?[/quote]

I've yet to meet a college that cares about anything except your unweighted GPA. [/quote]
Much of the TJ class manages to keep the unweighted GPA above 3.0, there may be fewer than 5 to 10% that go below that.   college admissions dont compare TJ to non-TJ, instead they compare one TJ applicant to another TJ applicant. So it is better to be in the top half of the class to begin with and stay there.  [/quote]

Honestly, I don't know that this is true. Maybe. MIT's admission process felt very check-the-box when the Tech did a deep dove into the process. How could it not be? 10K applications to sort through? It was a scoring rubric of test scores and GPA and either you were competitive or you weren't. If you weren't they didnt look at your application and it was discarded. These days the average MIT GPA is 3.97? SAT math 800? 1590 average? Very little margin for less than perfect. [/quote]

These days getting into MIT is truly a lottery.  Better or worse grades are not a factor.  Don't kid yourself.  Or your DC.[/quote]

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