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[quote=Anonymous]The only way this won't screw the kids in low-income schools who are first gen and POC would be if you barred schools from automatically increasing the GPA based on AP classes that the kids in poor schools don't have the ability to take, which isn't going to happen. Right now, when you spot a POC or first gen kid with a high GPA who is scoring above 1100, you know they're worth a second look because it's damn hard to score at or above that range if you grew up in a family where your parents didn't finish high school. That kid almost always has an innate ability to perform well in college.

With grade inflation added on top of the AP bumps to GPA, there's way too much chaos in the system for GPA alone to work. The level of knowledge Admissions Committees would need to acquire on the tens of thousands of high schools across the country in order to only use GPA is beyond insane. Sure, they'll be know that a B+ at Sidwell is not the same as a B+ at DeMatha since those two schools send lots of applicants. But they won't know about all the rural schools in places like Texas or Georgia and whether a kid from there "only" has a 4.0 because they had no opportunity to earn a GPA above that through APs.

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