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[quote=Anonymous]Grades in general, and grade inflation specifically, vary widely by high school. There is on one size fits all. No standardization, as much as some people like to pretend that there is.

My older kids attended a high school that purposely tended toward deflationary grades, or at least not inflationary (private, not on the east coast). My high test score kid was in the middle of the class for grades, with ok but less than thrilling results last year in the new test optional admissions world. My younger kid attends a different high school, easier to have all As, but a lot of students do dual enrollment, resulting in super high weighted GPAs. He has a 4.0 but even with a reasonable four year plan of APs and dual enrollment for math (maybe 8 or so weighted courses total?), and even if he maintains all As, he'll barely crack top 25% for weighted GPA per the School Profile. What I'm not sure about is how much that matters for highly selective college admissions - rough rank per weighted GPA - if he maintains a high unweighted GPA and has sufficient rigor.[/quote]

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