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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Threads like this are baffling.  Big 3 parents who spend tens of thousands of dollars a year in tuition really have to come on to this silly website to ask basic questions about how their school’s grading systems impacts college admissions?  Seriously?  What on earth are you paying all that money for?

Sigh.

Here’s the deal.  I’d use all caps and scream it, but that would be rude.

Every high school in America includes a detailed school profile with a student’s transcript.  Among other things, the profile explains the grading system.  So adcoms know exactly what a 3.5 GPA from your snooty little fancy private school means.  Your kids are not being compared with 4.6 GPAs coming out of local publics.  Adcoms are smart enough and experienced enough to know how to interpret the transcript of a Big 3 applicant.

My God, people, relax.  [/quote]

I don’t really understand why you need to be so rude, as someone with kids in both private and public. It undercuts your point quite a bit.

It is true that the school profile is sent, but it is also true that some universities and colleges widely trumpet the average incoming GPA and use it for rankings, so while they know the profile, higher GPAs will help at the schools that advertise and rely on incoming GPA. This varies by individual colleges. Also, as someone who used to sit on an admission committee for a highly ranked school, you are simply incorrect that the kids aren’t being compared. They are. But how much the school weights the school profile varies by the college. [/quote]

Please provide actual proof that this is occurring.  You can’t.  You’re talking straight out of your uninformed a$$.  [/quote]

So rude. There is no point engaging with people who show themselves to be both rude and ignorant at the same time. You’re a hopeless case and not worth the time. Go work in college admissions for four years and come back. [/quote]

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