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[quote=Anonymous]On the more than 50% with weighted 4.0 or higher: it's a reflection of the absurd grade inflation in MCPS, but it's also not the relevant stat for those applying to T25, probably even T50 or beyond, schools.  MCPS has neither plusses nor minuses.  AND it gives a 1 point bump for a massive number of classes -- anything labeled Honors, Advanced, AP or IB all get the same exact, 1-point bump.  So a weighted 4.0 can easily mean that the kid is largely a B student -- and one who took mostly Honors level classes and very few APs.

Since it's such a big district, every admissions office at the schools that regularly draw from MCPS knows this, and they are evaluating transcripts in that light.  The weighted GPA is, for competitive schools, just not that relevant -- what matters is the UW GPA plus the level of rigor of classes the kids take.

And the value of a weighted 4.0 (or a W GPA in the low 4s) would be obvious to any MCPS kid who looks at scattergrams -- you need a way higher W GPA to even begin to be competitive for T50 schools.

And of course MCPS makes it impossible to know what % of the graduating class has an UW 4.0 or close to it.[/quote]

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