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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15:43 Communication problem here. When I am referring to "weighting grades," it is about weighting what a B (85) is from St. Alban's to a B at All American High (85).  St. Alban's B (85) is then multiplied by a some magical number that the admissions department has determined (let's say 1.08 and the B is an equivalent to a 91/92.

Not all colleges do this but many do. They also don't share this with the public because it is their own private system. I know personally... don't want to "out" myself, so that's all I'm going to say. [/quote]

That sounds like an awful lot of fussing, especially over thousands of applications. My gut tells me they look at the essay, the personal statement, the SAT scores, the interview comments and then while reviewing the grades say, " well, this is at Saint Albans" and then the " weighting" is a gut reaction to that, not a 10 min crunch adding numbers to a percentile on a calculator and then doing the same with anotehr application. That is insane. I do NOT think admissions decsions are made that way.[/quote]

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