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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s just recalculating.  It is not the same thing as using the high school’s weighting.[/quote]

Exactly. They don’t use the high school weighting. They use their own.

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[b]Well I have yet to see any student under a 4.0 get into UMCP this year on college confidential [/b]unless their weighted was above 4.0. I highly doubt the kids admitted here are smarter than these top schools with lower GPA averages. Something doesn’t add up here.

Looking at average GPA here:

UMCP 4.3

Penn 3.9
Brown 4.0
UC Berkeley 3.8
Harvard 4.1
UMich 3.8
MIT 4.1
Wisc 3.8
Notre Dame 4.0
BU 3.6
Georgetown 4.0
USC 3.7
Williams 4.0 
UVA 4.1

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If you’re using College Confidential as your data source you’re doing it wrong.[/quote]

This data may come from Common Data Sets, though, which comes directly from the colleges.  What I've seen is publics like UNC Chapel Hill may have higher GPAs than any top private.  (UNC-CH also has higher GPAs than UVA and W&M, BTW.)  This may just mean those states have grade inflation at the high school level.[/quote]

Colleges are permitted to submit GPA data in their common data set as they see fit. Some reports contain unweighted, while others have weighted, recalculated, or no GPA data at all. The UMCP average GPA is obviously weighted and is pretty worthless considering all of the MCPS kids with ridiculously inflated GPAs in the mix.[/quote]

Agree and I think that is the whole point of the issue here.  How can kids in non-weighted schools even compete.  I know kids in top college prep schools with great unweighted GPA's getting into ivy's, but getting rejected from UVA and UMCP.  That is fine for the families that can afford top private colleges.  But for a family on financial aid at Sidwell (with no AP's offered, but obvious high rigor) as a Maryland resident, may only be able to afford UMCP.  25-30% of the kids at those type of schools are on financial aid.  Where do they end up I wonder?  [/quote]

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