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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So 14 APS and AP Calc II isn’t enough rigor for Penn State?  Good lord college admissions is insane. [/quote]

But let’s be honest, a 1380 SAT doesn’t really match a 3.9 UW GPA. The SAT should be much higher. [/quote]

Sure it does.  That's 93rd percentile.  Plus the "reported" SAT scores of a lot of these schools are very inflated now since only kids who did better than average sent their scores.  A 1380 still puts him above the 50th percentile of the kids who sent scores and his GPA is at the 75%.  That plus 14 APs makes it a bit surprising.   [/quote]

We can agree to disagree. I suspect that GPA is highly inflated. [/quote]

Once you're smart enough to understand the material (and any kid scoring at the 93rd percentile obviously is) high GPA is driven mostly by being conscientious and organized.  To some extent I agree with you; with all the grade inflation and retakes available now _all_ grades are highly inflated.  Even with highly inflated grades the kid was at the 75% for grades and probably at 75% for SAT score if the TO kids were considered.  Before TO PSU had an average SAT of around 1260.

I image that TO has the effect of artificially increasing both SAT averages and GPA averages reported at the school.[/quote]

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