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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where did you get Top 100? What it takes to get into Top 100 is a far cry different than what it takes to get to Top 20. [/quote]

I was being generous based on the fact the tween/teen forum seems to be ok with no EC's and B averages.[/quote]
Do Top 100s actually take kids with no ECs and B averages?  The top half of VA public universities (UVA, VA Tech, WM, and even JMU now) pretty much require top grades and ECs.  [/quote]

JMU requires top grades because of grade inflation in FCPS. It is really hard to get Bs if you are putting in a bit of effort. [/quote]
I keep reading this on this forum but I don’t see grade inflation to that extent. My kid is in honors classes (9th grade), was in AAP.  Science and math especially-the exams are not just easy multiple choices.  You need to know material. You miss couple of questions—that can put at a B.  Is it as hard as it was back on our day? Prob not.  But the idea that you can hand in anything and get an A is BS. [/quote]

There are many schools where the average weighted GPA is 4.1-4.3. The average unweighted is 3.9. They have tests but the test average is less than 1/3 of the semester grade. Some schools let tests be retaken if under an 88. The other 2/3 grade is completion homework grades and participation. Basically a guaranteed 95-100 for 2/3 of the grade. The inflation is increasing more every year. The colleges know this: dean J of UVA has done vlogs where they review how transcripts are evaluated and she has noted many schools in VA have 75%of the graduating class with over a 4.0weighted. What is not said is the valedictorians often have above a 5 (5.5 is an A+ in some of these schools). Other schools, parochial or private, have the median weighted as 3.8 and unweighted 3.7, with the top student getting 4.4 weighted. You cannot compare gpas between schools. The colleges compare within a school when they need to. They have their own view of scoir that lets them track the gpas and scores from different high schools even if the high school does not provide a profile: in other words they can infer the approximate rank[/quote]

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