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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school only shows the last 3 years and only if at least 3 students applied.  I'm surprised at how high some of the gpas are and wonder if the gpa is at end of junior year when kids actually apply or final end of senior year GPA. [/quote]
We had an issue with this but in Naviance. It was pulling GPAs from a different system, the one that generated transcripts and report cards (like Infinite Campus but it was the private high school's own system). CCO said they were 6-semester GPAs, but I could see my older kids on the scatterplots at the point of the end-of-senior year GPA, not at the 6-semester GPA.

The high school also used the setting that showed data only if at least 3 students had applied or were accepted or enrolled. So, even if 5 students applied to a highly selective school and one or two were accepted, it would show the number that applied but show that zero students were accepted. You could see points of accepted students on the scatterplot, but no idea what year they were from. The data for highly selective schools were insufficient to be truly useful.

They switched to Maia and the settings the high school is using are equally vague. It really takes away from any possible utility. It would be helpful only extreme cases, where a school takes nearly everyone over a certain GPA, or gpa/score, or no one at all.

Also, GPA changes for RD. I don't know the extent to which colleges use the 7-semester GPA from mid-year (whether the college recalculates or takes it from the mid-year report) rather than the end-of-junior year, 6-semester GPA.[/quote]

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