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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't forget South Carolina where the kids can get up to a 6.0 in a class for honors-AP-double honors-some nonsense.  [/quote]

PP is correct.  This has shifted the irrefutable selectivity ranking as follows:

1) UNC Chapel Hill 4.7
2) Clemson 4.43
3) UVA 4.3
4) UM College Park 4.28
5) South Carolina 4.21
6) Harvard 4.18
7) Stanford 3.95
8) Princeton 3.90

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Don't forget Florida!:

1) UNC Chapel Hill 4.7
2) Clemson 4.43
3) Florida 4.42
[b]4) UVA 4.3[/b]
5) UM College Park 4.28
6) South Carolina 4.21
7) Harvard 4.18
8) Stanford 3.95
9) Princeton 3.90[/quote]

The only thing standardized in admissions is standardized test scores, and many schools are trying to scuttle that or go test optional or get around it through loopholes (foreigners not counted, spring admits not counted).  [/quote]

[b]Still, the more accurate stats are posted every fall by the State Higher Education Council of Virginia[/b], has UVA median at a 4.35 and a 4.49 for 75th percentile.  If you are unhooked and applying from NoVA, you better be aiming for the top 75th percentile which is 4.49 GPA; 34 ACT or 1500 SAT or higher.  These are the scores of actual entering students, not acceptances (which are higher stats because a number of students peel off and go Ivy or SLACs). I know a lot of UVA legacy students who had that 75th percentile package last year and did not get in even as legacies.

GPA: 4.49 (75th percentile); 4.35 median; 4.25 bottom 25th
ACT: 34 (75th percentile); 33 median; 30 bottom 25th
SAT 1500 (75th percentile): 1430 median; 1340 bottom

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You are missing all the key points.  Grading is not standardized.  Scales for grading are not standardized.  There are no standards on how to synthesize and report grading data.  SCHEV is Virginia only.  Grading practices may vary widely by state and district.  It will not apply to Duke.  Even in Virginia privates do not have to report GPA.   Many schools do not report GPA data on the CDS, perhaps for the reasons above.  CDS data is used by publications like USNWR, so there is incentive to report in a defensible way, so I would not say SCHEV is more accurate than CDS.    [/quote]

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