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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you begin to standardize GPAs?

My one kid goes to a DCPS high school where he is getting a 4.7 (4.0 unweighted) for pretty much breathing. 
My other kid goes to NCS where she has done about 5 times the work of her brother for an unweighted 3.6 (and there is no weighting for honors or APs beyond this and limited APs even offered). 
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This is why the proposal is stupid.  And you likewise cannot compare the SAT of a kid from Sidwell to a kid from DCPS who lives in poverty---you have to consider the advantages one kid has had all their life over the other and the lack of advantages and the life issues the one kid has had to overcome (most likelY). [/quote]
DP. One problem, in my opinion, is college admission offices attempting to quantify these types of subjective determinations, i.e., assigning a number to things that are inherently not quantifiable. I don't have ideas for other ways to make admission decisions, though my suspicion is that these attempts at quantifying are more problematic than admission offices realize, in a GIGO sort of way.[/quote]

Because schools are not looking for just a class of 1600/4.0/"perfect ECs and volunteering"---they are looking for the "IT" factor and for kids who are going to go out and change the world.  The "go out and change the world" factor is a bit subjective because Harvard might be looking for something different than Stanford or Columbia, etc.  Fact remains, the people complaining about all of this are still complaining about NOT getting admission to a school with single digit acceptance rates, where 95% of those who apply are "great candidates".  Do the math----tons of highly qualified students will get rejected---it's part of the game of applying to highly rejective schools.  Those kids will get into schools ranked slightly lower easily---plenty in the 25-50 range they will get into, sometime with excellent merit.  So it's not Harvard or I'm attending my local CC (not that there is anything wrong with that path).  People need to get over feeling entitled to attend elite universities.  [/quote]

It's about time universities started to look at grades and test scores more since it is a 'school' after all where learning various academic subjects take place and sports, money etc. should not be the primary purpose of these schools. The primary purpose of any colleges/universities should be about academics.[/quote]

Schools want to create future leaders and most are very clear about it. The kid with perfect grades isn't better positioned than the athlete with good grades who was also student class president and editor of the year book[/quote]

Good football players and kids with rich dads do not make 'future leaders' they make bad leaders if they even become leaders. Terrible idea that should be eliminated. [/quote]

The stats disagree https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/11/want-to-be-a-ceo-later-play-sports-now.html[/quote]

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