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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Florida is like California in that it has a very robust and normalized path from 2-year to 4-year schools. [/quote]

Ooof. The idea of community college being the normalized path for someone with a A+ weighted GPA is just unreal.  :shock:

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OP has an A+ weighted GPA because he/she went to high school in a state that weights classes by more than 1.0 and dropped the courses they didn't do well in.   You can't compare a weighted GPA from there to one from a state that uses other standards.  [/quote]

OP here. To be fair, I didn't drop any classes. My school just didn't include non-academic classes in GPA calculations. And since I did graduate from Purdue engineering, it's odd you would even imply I belonged in a community college. The program hasn't changed - it's just more selective now.[/quote]

I said the state dropped them from your GPA.

You can't compare a weighted GPA from a state that gives over 1.0 bolster to many courses, to one from someplace like VA which gives 0.5 for anything but AP's.  Your 4.8 would be a very high GP in MD, and an impossible GPA in VA.  But in other states where they might give 2.0 or even 3.0 for an advanced class, it's not a big deal.  [/quote]

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