Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:40
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
a lot of admissions teams recalculate GPA based on their own internal metric. Many AOs have said this.
AOs know the schools that have rampant grade inflation and those that deflate.
There is NO POSSIBLE way to standardize GPA across the board. Kids are coming from different types of schools, different countries, different situations, and different educational models.
AOs know the schools that have rampant grade inflation and those that deflate.
There is NO POSSIBLE way to standardize GPA across the board. Kids are coming from different types of schools, different countries, different situations, and different educational models.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:39
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Anonymous wrote:GPA can never, ever be standardized. It isn't even standardized between students at the same high school, who have taken different courses. It isn't standardized even between students at the same high school who have taken the same courses with different teachers.
College admissions seems to treat GPA as standardized even while acknowledging that it is not.
College admission doesn’t treat gpa as standardized. Dumb parents do.
College admissions are holistic, and look at gpa in context of rigor relative to high school and high school”s reputation with respect to SAT and achievements and performance at college
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:39
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Anonymous wrote:GPA can never, ever be standardized. It isn't even standardized between students at the same high school, who have taken different courses. It isn't standardized even between students at the same high school who have taken the same courses with different teachers.
College admissions seems to treat GPA as standardized even while acknowledging that it is not.
Thats a very good point
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:39
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
It’s hilarious to me that schools are test optional when seeing SAT within contexts actually pretty easy to do. And yet they lean on GPA which is very hard to put into context
Standardizing GPA would be a small but good step
Standardizing GPA would be a small but good step
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:38
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Even if a 90 was always an A, it wouldn't standardize the amount of work necessary to get an A.
Of course. But let’s take some steps when we can.
At our school, a 97 is a 4.0. It’s clearly on the school profile that a 96 is a 3.8. But I’m sure plenty of readers see that 3.8 as a B in their head.
I’d love to see GPAs go and numbers in their place. A 99 is different than a 90. Stuy does this
Readers see the grades in context of the school. And if the school sends a school profile with gps distributions, the readers will know where a given gps sits in the context of the class.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:37
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
I love these high schools w profiles that don’t even list their GPA to grade break downs. Everyone gets As. And sorry, we’re disclosing that a 90 is an A
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:36
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
GPA can never, ever be standardized. It isn't even standardized between students at the same high school, who have taken different courses. It isn't standardized even between students at the same high school who have taken the same courses with different teachers.
College admissions seems to treat GPA as standardized even while acknowledging that it is not.
College admissions seems to treat GPA as standardized even while acknowledging that it is not.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:36
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Agree w others that it wouldn’t solve the entire problem, but it would be better and I think would take some pressure off schools (parents really focus on gpa scales ime)
Also agree on cut off dates. My kids started kindergarten at 4 in NYC. Now that there’s expanded pre-k, push it back
Also agree on cut off dates. My kids started kindergarten at 4 in NYC. Now that there’s expanded pre-k, push it back
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:34
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Anonymous wrote:Even if a 90 was always an A, it wouldn't standardize the amount of work necessary to get an A.
Yeah. Teachers/schools would just adjust grading to whatever a new scale is. There is nothing magical about the ruler used. Inches or centimeters, its the same length.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:33
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Anonymous wrote:Even if a 90 was always an A, it wouldn't standardize the amount of work necessary to get an A.
Of course. But let’s take some steps when we can.
At our school, a 97 is a 4.0. It’s clearly on the school profile that a 96 is a 3.8. But I’m sure plenty of readers see that 3.8 as a B in their head.
I’d love to see GPAs go and numbers in their place. A 99 is different than a 90. Stuy does this
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:31
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
I don't think this is going to fix the problem, which is really different grading standards across all schools, unless you force all teachers across the country to use a standardized rubric, and somehow make them assign grade exactly the same homework, essays, and exams and grade these with the same degree of strictness. In other words, not possible.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:30
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
GPA would still be so subjective, but I admire your spirit. A standard scale would be a move in the right direction.
Agree about the bday cutoff.
-Mom in NY with a 10 year old boy currently in 6th grade
Agree about the bday cutoff.
-Mom in NY with a 10 year old boy currently in 6th grade
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:29
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Even if a 90 was always an A, it wouldn't standardize the amount of work necessary to get an A.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:25
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Anonymous wrote:Listening to YCBK and ugh, so much of this admissions stuff is bs. Which we know.
One easy fix:
a standardized GPA.
It makes no sense that a 90 is an A some places and B another
Not on YCBK, but I also think cut off bdays should be standardized. Some of these kids are more than a year older than others by the time they get to applying to college. And people move. Make it Sept 1. Or whatever! Just make it standard.
I do agree that 19-year-old “leaders” and team captains have to be put in context with their 17-year-old brethren. It is weird that colleges don’t do that.
Anonymous
09/22/2025 09:23
Subject: I think GPAs should be standardized
Listening to YCBK and ugh, so much of this admissions stuff is bs. Which we know.
One easy fix:
a standardized GPA.
It makes no sense that a 90 is an A some places and B another
Not on YCBK, but I also think cut off bdays should be standardized. Some of these kids are more than a year older than others by the time they get to applying to college. And people move. Make it Sept 1. Or whatever! Just make it standard.
One easy fix:
a standardized GPA.
It makes no sense that a 90 is an A some places and B another
Not on YCBK, but I also think cut off bdays should be standardized. Some of these kids are more than a year older than others by the time they get to applying to college. And people move. Make it Sept 1. Or whatever! Just make it standard.