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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]UVA is on the same level as Georgetown, Wash U, and Cornell in Maryland.  Pretty prestigious.[/quote][/b]

No, it takes higher GPAs and test scores to now get into UVA.  The average incoming high school GPA at Georgetown is a 4.03; at Wash .Univ, a 4.11; at Cornell, a 4.04.  The median (half higher, half lower) of the top 25% of UVA's entering class of 2017 was a 4.44, median was a 4.29 and bottom 25% at 4.14.  Average ACT 33-35.[/quote]
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No.  You cannot compare GPAs across different geographies and demographics (which are in play with these schools).   For instance, the average weighted GPA at UNC Chapel Hill is 4.66, which is significantly higher than UVA, but also many Ivy League schools.  It is also higher than UC Berkeley, but Berkeley has about 99% reported in the top 10%.   There is no standard whatsoever for grading across high schools.  (And most, particularly the better ones, do not report class rank.)  This is why standardized tests still should matter (as they are the only thing that is standardized), but some schools are moving away from them for different reasons.[/quote][/b]

And that's why most schools also offer the number of students who were in the top 10% of their high school class.  For UVA it is 94.6% - 96%.  For UNC it is only 78%.  You are wrong about reporting class rank.  Every high school sends a class profile to college institutions with a breakdown of the rising senior class as to GPA.  The first thing any college admissions reviewer does is check to see where the applicant falls across that year's class profile. So it the top student is a 4.03, then a 4.00 weighted might be a relatively strong student whereas a 4.4 student in a class with a top of 4.6 might not be as strong.  This is why every college institution tells you the percentage of students that were in the top ten percent of their high school class.  And an interesting twist is that the students at UVA who are not in the top ten percent of their high school class are the TJ students, who, because they are already cream of the crop, do just fine at UVA.[/quote]

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