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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the admissions committee see the grades of all classes or just the core classes they use to calculate the MS GPA?  Does the committee see individual class grades?[/quote]

Math+Science+History+English.
If your child is scoring A grade 93-100% then GPA will be 4.0[/quote]

How do they calculate 7th grade GPA and 8th grade 1st quarter grade? Is it a simple mean with equal weightage? For example, Math GPA for 7th grade is A- and 8th GPA 1st quarter is A, the total GPA for Math is 3.85[/quote]

7th grade marks carry a full credit (for the full year) and 1st Quarter 8th grade marks carry a quarter credit (.25 for the quarter of the year). [/quote]

thank you, but I missing something here.. earlier posts indicated 3.995 as average GPA for students admitted in 2022. So I am not sure how that came about if it is not weighted average. [/quote]

It's 3.95, according to the FCPS press releases.  It's not weighted.  What it means is that most of the kids accepted to TJ had straight As in 7th grade and through the first quarter of 8th grade.  This is not surprising, since MS grades are inflated and pretty much every above average kid who puts in a modicum of effort gets As.[/quote]

+1, Although I also think GPA between MS also differs. In Center AAP MS (like Carson/Long Fellow tc.), it will be much more difficult to get 4.0 GPA vs 'Under represented' MS or non-aap MS. However new system seems to treat everyone with same yard stick.
New admission policy treats aaP and non-aap grade same hence AAP student will have muh more difficulty in qualifying.

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It doesn't really matter since they're competing against the top 1.5% from their school who use the same yardstick.[/quote]

It does matter. &th grader can take regular math have grade A and take Algebra 1 in 1st qtr wiht grade A, whereas AAP kids will always be taking math course that is 1 year ahead of their grade. Since admission does not differentiate between difficulty of course taken and treats each grade same, AAP students are at disadvantage. 
Also, top 1.5% includes AAP and no-aap stduents with highest GPA (don't know if school will take in to account anything else) . If student is not in top 1.5%, they are ranked in general pool again with same yardstick.
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