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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges want your school's profile so they can tell what that a particular GPA means at your high school and what the most rigorous curriculum offered is at your high school.  Only parents compare GPAs among kids from different high schools.  So, there is no advantage or disadvantage to whether a high school grade inflates or deflates other than it used to fool parents into thinking either their high school is doing a good job because your kid's grades have improved or the high school is really hard and that must mean it is doing a good job.  Neither actually mean the high school is doing a good job.[/quote]

What a college would really like to see is a high school that has significant differentiation among individual student GPAs, so they knew who truly were the top students.  That would suggest the grading is really meaningful.  A school that has bunched together students at lower grades with very slight differentiation is no better than a school that bunches together students at higher grades with very slight differentiation.  Both are an indication that the high school wants to tell colleges that the vast majority of their kids are special, which the colleges know is BS whether this is a private or public school.  Ranking students on extremely small differences in GPAs is a way for schools to try to thread the needle by identifying their top students without making anyone feel too bad, but that really just hurts the top students because the colleges can see that the top students' grades are so close to the next group that it doesn't really tell them much. [/quote]

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