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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Student was never going to Brown or Georgetown. Or GW due to cost. Parents were limiting attendance to instate Virginia schools. Just being sneaky about it.

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Wrong.

Brown’s average admit GPA is 3.9 and 4.3 for weighted.

Yale and Princeton cite 3.9 as their average incoming GPA.

It’s the crazy publics—-MoCO with their 5.0 scale and some Nova schools with unlimited AP courses (which the kids then can’t score a 4 or 5 at the end of the year on the exam).

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What am I missing?  You are conflating weighted with unweighted grades.  The average weighted grade at an Ivy is not a 3.9.[/quote]

And it's not above a 4.3 either!!  That's my point.  If you have an unweighted 4.0 with a minimum of 6-8 AP courses--you are more than fine for the top 10 schools.  At UVA a kid like that would be cutoff, even with high scores because of the serious grade inflation in VA public schools ([b]and multiple chances to retake exams and bring grades up-[/b]-not realistic) and the need to be a grind and take 12-15 AP courses even when you can't pass the AP exams for them.  That's the kind of student that ends up there.  [/quote]

NP. FCPS certainly has some funky grading policies post-covid, but the impact of their policies on high acheiving students, the kind who would get into UVA, IMO is negligible. Unless the policy has changed since last year, retake grades max out at an 80%, even if a kid's score is 100%. Kids with high GPAs aren't typically the ones getting 80% on assessments and then pulling As in the classes.

Also grade inflation is not the same thing as grade weighting. Just because you hear a student has a 4.3 GPA, that isn't inflation per se, that's weighting. In FCPS, to get into UVA, you have to be amongst the strongest students in your school. At Langley HS last year that GPA hovered around a 4.5. That's no different than local privates who might grade on a 4.0 scale.

UVA also wants kids to take the most rigorous course load, which does lead to kids cramming in APs in FCPS. Which sucks. [/quote]

+100[/quote]

We had grade weighting when I was in high school and Honors classes got a big bump. Difference was that out of a class of 275, only 30 kids were in the 1 honors section so only those kids got the bump. We were tracked early and those tracks added a few here and there but mostly stayed the same group of kids. Now,  because there is free access to this weighted  advantage if the student selects it (at least in FCPS), hundreds of kids get the bump and become much more hard to differentiate from  each other. [/quote]

Yes good old tracking where they picked who the special kids were in Kindergarten and they forevermore got the best classes and resources and grade enhancements.

Very easy to differentiate kids if most of them are kept away from opportunities.[/quote]

Exactly. [/quote]

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