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[quote=Anonymous]Let's just suppose that Hamilton (or Amherst, Williams, Middlebury etc) has had excellent experience with students they've admitted from certain elite DC schools (public or private) that have GPAs on the low end of their average. Typically, those kids with also have very high test scores (34+, 1500+), and be accomplished in something or multiple things that will redound to the benefit of the institution. Plus full pay. Though schools like Hamilton profess to be need-blind, they still somehow manage to admit half of the class as full-pay students, and nothing wrong with that. Someone's got to keep the lights on. Let's also say that Hamilton and its ilk get thousands application from 3.9 kids from mediocre schools, with much lower SAT/ACT scores. And while there are of course exceptions to the rule, the rule is that those kids don't perform as well in college as the lower-GPA elite high school kids.  
When you look at a Naviance scattergram from one of these high-end high schools (and I have), you'll see that the admitted cohort is in a GPA range significantly below the college's published average. But its test scores are at the high end. So what does that say? Maybe something about grade inflation, and maybe something about the academic and other talents of kids who have had fortunate upbringings. Ask a NESCAC admissions officer, on deep background (because they'll never admit it publicly), to verify this. I don't know if they will, but I know they can.[/quote]

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