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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh and i say that because you are competing with kids like mine who is 4.89 with 15 AP classes, National Merit Semi Finalist and Valedictorian or Sudatorian depending on how senior grades go. In the DMV higher is way better because higher here is average.[/quote]

The 4.89 is likely MCPS. Colleges know those GPAs are inflated and judge students by their own school district. [/quote]

Even at MCPS that high of gpa is very rare. You see a couple in Scattergrams heading off to the Ivys. Many incredible colleges are taking kids with lower gpas and more reasonable AP loads than 15.  That said, 1 AP as a junior is low for most competitive DMV high schools. [/quote]

My kid has a weighted GPA of 5.something. Taking a pile of idiotic AP classes. Some of the kids in those classes are dumb as dirt, so my kid says. But they get more "weight" in their GPA for the APs.

It's completely ridiculous!

Any college that r=relies only on GPA/test scores I don't want my kid attending. Do they even bother looking at the classes the kids take? Read recommendations? Interview the kid? (ya, covid...) Read their essays? Look at the whole kid?

The college admissions process is completely broken.

And don't go cawing about Europe. I think their system is better in some ways because kids who aren't college material don't end up in college. Here, everyone has to go to college, also ridiculous.

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