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[quote=Anonymous]It's the same story at STA and NCS this year.  Top but unhooked kids were the ones with the most disappointing admissions relative to their stats.  Some slipped through and did ok; many did not.  It was totally random whereas it used to be a relatively sure thing: if you had "this" high GPA, you could reasonably expect an admission to "this" group of schools.  This year totally random for the highest kids.

Not much these schools can do about that except for the grade deflation.  I honestly don't know why these schools do this since it only hurts their own students.  NCS is also notorious for English classes where out of the entire grade, less than 5 kids will be given an A from the department.  Why do this?  You have rigorous admissions standards and they you give everyone Bs.  It makes no sense. 
I'm 100% sure that if these schools would bump all grading up by half a letter grade it would improve admissions.  A bump of a full letter grade and they'd knock it out of the park.  The kids would still do the same work, score the same on the AP exams and SATs--they would just have competitive GPAs!  Amazing.  [/quote]

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