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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College counselor here - I wish APS did a better job of educating families and students about what colleges care about, and this is. not. it.

a) Selective schools are looking at unweighted GPA and b) rigorous courseload. Dropping middle school classes to bring a 4.4 to a 4.5 or whatever is more likely to make a school think something went very wrong in 8th grade.

So much about the grade inflation at APS results from bones administrators have thrown to parents, over the course of decades, who think they're doing their kids a favor by trying to game this out. It truly will not make a positive difference if you drop As from a middle school transcript. [/quote]

I don’t believe this is true at all schools. You cant tell me that colleges that are getting 25,000+ applications are recalculating everyones grades. They have a cutoff and then more intensely review those over that hurdle. [/quote]

Those numbers will drop as many of the schools are reinstating mandatory test scores. And those schools are not dropping a kid with a 4.2 but keeping a 4.3 in the automatic cull. [/quote]

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