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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the early January 2018 list somewhat mirrors the 2017 acceptances and over 3,000,000 in merit dollars.

PP 14:11  Find admissions at several schools ill-informed and uncaring about the Basis curriculum in admissions decisions. Basis combining failing AP scores with final grades, lowers GPAs drastically. [/quote]

Last year at the request of several colleges, BASIS calculated 2 GPAs for each student. One with the AP test scores factored in, and another without. Unlike other schools, there is no way for a BASIS student to prevent college admissions officers from seeing poor Ap scores.

If your child isn't likely to do well on AP exams, for whatever reason, do not send them to BASIS for high school. [/quote]

Colleges asked for weighted and unweighted GPAs— or colleges asked for the GPA prior to using the AP conversion table? [/quote]

[b]SOME [/b](certainly not all) colleges asked for the GPA without BASIS using the AP score for a % of the final grade. They understood the BASIS grading system but also wanted to see how students performed in the class itself, without the AP score factored in. These were smaller schools that do holistic admissions.

I would imagine that would not happen at a large state university, for example, that doesn't spend much time on each application. [/quote]

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