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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it would be tough from a public school because with rampant grade inflation the top GPAs are way above 4.

The best private schools (NCS, Holton, Landon, STA) don't have grade inflation so a GPA less than 4 might still be impressive. I know unhooked grads of each of those schools that were admitted to HYP with less than 4.0[/quote]

No, public school kids have to have 3.8-4.0 [b]unweighted[/b] GPAs as well. You are confused about several things:
1. Even alleged "rampant grade inflation" won't take a kid above 4.0. The only way to get over 4.0 is with APs.
2. Colleges only look at unweighted GPAs (which are on a scale of 1.0-4.0). Colleges do not care about weighted GPAs. In fact, many colleges have their own, proprietary weighting systems that they run kids' transcripts through.
3. Why do you think the good publics have "rampant grade inflation"? Prove this.

Signed, mom of an unhooked public school kid who got into an Ivy with an unweighted GPA of 3.9 (which is useless for answering OP's question, but seems like it might be helpful to you)
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At Churchill 42% of the school has an unweighted GPA between 3.5 and 4.0. Sounds like grade inflation to me.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/churchillhs/counseling/15_profile%20final%20copy%20rev%20%20sunshine.pdf[/quote]

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