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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are giving too much credit to private school aspect. A B student will be viewed as a B student no matter what. 2100 SAT kids are dime a dozen in MCPS. [/quote]

Not true at all.

The Ivy League's academic index always favors class rank over GPA if available. Why? Because they know that not all GPAs are the same. Some schools are more competitive/harsher than others. They want to know where you stand in relation to other students.

Schools send a school report that breaks down the GPA distribution. Colleges will know what your GPA means in the context of your school. They don't look at your GPA in a vacuum.

[b]Don't spread lies about things you don't know anything about[/b].[/quote]
here did I lie? OP's son with 3.3 GPA is a B student within the context of his school peers. Now, if his HS is so grade deflated no one gets an A, that's one thing. But I highly doubt that. Colleges having HS profile is no news. EVERYBODY knows that. [/quote]

You're correct that context matters, but that's exactly what a single student's GPA doesn't provide.  There are high schools in this area where a 3.3. might land you at the bottom of the top quarter some years, or in the second quarter other years.  There are other local high schools where a 3.3. is always in the bottom half of the class.  Moreover, an applicant with a 3.3 GPA who took the most challenging courses the school offers will be regarded very differently from an applicant with a 3.3 who took easier courses.  This is why admissions reps focus so much on learning everything they can about the schools in their regions -- and why they don't simply rely on the school's official profile.  And this is why, even at school that don't rank students, the admissions reps will push counselors to place the student in the context of his/her peers.

(BTW, to clarify, I'm not the PP who implied that you lied.)       [/quote]

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