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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of current junior here. Parents of juniors very much do care about this topic. Yes, colleges understand the context of this semester. However, there are many colleges (esp large universities) that make decisions based on cumulative GPAs. And other colleges that especially look at upward trends. There are many juniors who will be hurt in the college admissions process if their third quarter grades are not shared with colleges, either by not being included on the transcript and/or not included in calculating the cumulative GPA.[/quote]

All (competitive) colleges recalibrate the grades so that they are comparing apples to apples. So MCPS students with a weighted GPA (maybe ingflated a bit ...) are not treated more favorably than students from a school without weighted GPAs.  I’m pretty sure they can figure out how to factor for the fourth quarter being pass/fail.  They can figure this out so everyone is treated fairly. I wouldn’t worry about it at all.

I mean, you all didn’t think our kids were getting a leg up because of weighted gpa did you?  [/quote]

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