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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a different world.  Far more difficult to get into college or university than it was in late 70s/early 80s.  Back then the highest you could go was a 4.0 and no AP classes and there was one valedictorian.  Now you can have a GPA up to 6.0; carry 15 AP classes and public high schools have 60 valedictorians (don't ask me why - I have no idea - I can only assume its everyone over a 4.0 GPA).  And your kids are competing against a huge international market wanting to send their kids to American schools and very happy to pay full freight.  And the colleges, in turn, want to boast diversity diversity!  It's a much different world.[/quote]

A few corrections. Colleges look at unweighted GPAs, not weighted GPAs, so the GPA number that matters still maxes out at 4:00. Colleges don't expect more than 8-9 AP classes from public school kids, and maybe 4-5 AP classes from private school kids. And what public school, where, has 60 valedectorians?

For the rest, though, it is indeed harder to get into any school than it was 20-30 years ago.[/quote]

Actually I know for a fact the weighting policies vary University to University. All the Ivies and most independent schools weight STA, NCS, Sidwells grades. Not always the case with huge State schools.[/quote]

They do not weight grades.  You do not know that for a fact. They look at the on a 4.0 scale.[/quote]

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