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[quote=Anonymous]College admissions office and staff are neither ignorant nor naive, with only rare exceptions.

For reasonably well-known private schools, say top-10 locally, most regional universities in this area and also the better national universities (a) will understand the differences in grading scales and grading practices from local publics && (b) will internally adjust.  Internal adjustment is not necessarily a rigid mathematical formula.  A smaller university in a different area or different country will look at the “School Profile” available from the school and use that to try to evaluate/compare.  No comparison ever could be 100% perfect, but they will be close enough to be “reasonable”.

For overseas colleges and universities, a student’s standardized test scores (E.g., actual earned scores from AP tests, standardized Achievement Tests, SAT/ACT, Cambridge Highers, and such like) usually will weight much more heavily than GPA.  Most UK, European, and Canadian university admissions look primarily at those scores - for all US students, public or private - in lieu of direct GPA comparisons.  These also usually will look at a student’s GPA, but do so in the context of the child’s school’s “School Profile”.

Those school profiles usually indicate the scale (out of 4.0 or 5.0 or whatever), and usually also give an indication of median/mean GPA. Of course, one would not want to be in the bottom half of any school (even at a magnet like TJ).[/quote]

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