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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How will they distinguish among white or Asian kids who all have the same grades?

I get how this allows them to pick minorities.  But there will be spots who go to white/Asian kids.  And a very large percentage of these kids will have almost identical grades--I know my kid and all of his friends have the same grades
Retake and lax grading makes it almost impossible to not do well in many publics (DCPS for sure). 
I get that extracurriculars are one thing--but again, most kids will have a very, very similar version of these as well.  And it's not Harvard--we're not looking for kids to split to atom to get into UCSD or even UCLA.

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Same as how they do it now.  Most kids who have similar grades from similar HS also have very similar standardized test scores.    [/quote]

Some do, some don't.  At present time this still gives a data point.  I don't think you realize the degree to which grades mean nothing in many publics.  They are so inflated---those getting As range from medicare to outstanding.  [/quote]

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