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[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.

Don't spread lies about things you don't know anything about.[/quote]

Weird. Why are you talking about Ivy League schools? Neither OP nor the PP you're calling a liar (who is not me) is talking about Ivy League schools. The reason being, 3.3 is out of the range for Ivies even if it's a 3.3 at a so-called Big 3 private. The kids I know with even 3.6s at Big 3s are not at Ivies, and in fact were turned down at competitive schools like Northwestern.

Any way, since you brought it up, and also because I hate to see bullies, especially bullies who are wrong, let me set this straight. There is no such thing as an "Ivy League Academic Index." Individual universities often have their own proprietary indices, which they create by applying their own weights to different classes. So a given Ivy might (and we have no way of knowing) rate an A in a junior Enlighten Lit class at Sidwell as a "5" not a "4." But they might also give a "5" to an A in an AP or IB class at a top area public. Also, public school kids who get 5s on their AP tests routinely send these in, to document that the "A" really means something on a national scale.

Also, like a PP mentioned, college admin offices have regional reps who are familiar with the schools in their regions and what class rank means in terms of the competitiveness of your peers. Instead of some mythical academic index, their input is going to be more subjective, like a thumb on the scale.[/quote]

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