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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to hard 80% of their applicants are qualified and would do well at the school, however they are only taking 5%… you can’t pick based on scores alone, they need to pick holistically.[/quote]

Honestly, schools should meet their needs (eg tuba player, soccer goalie) and then do a lottery for the rest above a certain threshold of SAT, grades, rigor. It has become so ridiculous. [/quote]

Having quotas for tuba players and soccer goalies and giving them a thumb on the scale sounds ridiculous to me.

[b]The issue is grade inflation and how to bring that down.[/b] There is no silver bullet that can replace multi-year academic performance and grit, character. A standardized test that can be taken over and over again for 10 years and some rich people can buy fake diagnosis to take them with unfair time accommodations.

It shouldn't be typical for most good students in a particular school to get straight As in high schools all 3-4 years. One C or several Bs should not be seen as the end of the world either but as a place for growth and learning. Grade 11 grades (junior year) should be the year where grades are the most important. Maybe GPA should be just grade 11 and 1st term of grade 12?

APs and honors classes should not be given "bonus points" because people have an incentive to load up. They should just be looked as measure of rigor, not GPA inflators.

The issue is grade inflation and ruining the value of GPAs.

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