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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gds is sending I think 5 or so to UCLA + cal this year so somehow they are getting past the weighted thing[/quote]

GDS grades more leniently than Sidwell and NCS. [/quote]

Grading leniency doesn't matter since I imagine we can assume that they all have 4.0s when UC calculates their GPAs (in that they have all "A" grades sophomore and Junior year)---
That aside, GDS doesn't have ANY APs.  So these kids have a MAX GPA of 4.0 unweighted/weighted which according to the previous poster would put them miles below a typical public applicant with a weighted >4.5. 
And yet they're getting in.  [/quote]

Did you just make my point? Grading leniency _does_ matter if we are talking about the top DC privates. Almost no one, literally, comes out of Sidwell with a 4.0uw.  In contrast, you just said "we can assume" that a GDS student will "have all "A" grades sophomore and junior year."

You would never assume that a Sidwell student, or NCS student, will have all As for two years straight.  Essentially no one does at these schools.  Unlike GDS, according to you

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You are missing my point. 
UC schools view all forms of an A as an A.  So all the kids with a mix of A and A minus grades in sophomore and junior years are viewed as having a 4.0 UW.  
A "REAL" 4.0 is exceedingly rare at these high schools.  But a UC 4.0 is far more common at GDS/NCS/Sidwell.

So competitive applicants to UC schools from the Big3 are probably within this pool of kids.  They have a 4.0.  However, they do not have APs or they have limited APs so their UW and weighted GPA is the same.  Which according to a previous poster puts them at the bottom of the UC applicant pool.  And yet some of them get in so clearly UC is analyzing them in the context of their high schools. [/quote]

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