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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts.  Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission.  Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.[/quote]

It is really, really rare to get all As in high school. Come on. [/quote]

It is not. There are many high schools that have 25% who have unweighted all As. In Virginia. In schools where 90 and above is an “A” (no A-), there are schools with 40% all As. These schools often weight A+ and weight for IB or AP or honors, such that a student at the top getting all A (and indeed and mostly A+) in hardest classes have 5.4 weighted.

That being said, UVA rep came and talked as part of a dean panel at our private school and parents attended: it is weighted gpa on the CDS. They confirmed it. They also said all As is quite common at some high schools and not others; some high schools have 75% with a Weighted GPA above 4.0, others have less than 25% with a weighted over 4.0. They consider students in the context of their highschool and whatever grading system and trends exist there.

UVA is very upfront with this stuff. They have put it on social media and in AMA sessions. 
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anecdotally: my 4.1 Weighted student was told they were just below average in our public high school. They are at JMU now and it is a good fit but we had no idea 4.1 W could possibly be below average until junior year when we asked. We never should have encourage UVA, we did not have a clue that taking a mix of regular and honors to start of high school would make 4.3W out of the question, which seems to be the bottom of reasonable for UVA in our school from naviance.[/quote]

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