Anonymous wrote:For the public school admits which will be majority of state schools, the GPAs should be sky high with the rules allowing retests.

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Anonymous wrote:For the public school admits which will be majority of state schools, the GPAs should be sky high with the rules allowing retests.

Again with this. Not the case for all classes/schools.

What is the median GPA at your VA public high school? And is it in Arlington, Alexandria or Fairfax County?

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Anonymous wrote:For the public school admits which will be majority of state schools, the GPAs should be sky high with the rules allowing retests.

Again with this. Not the case for all classes/schools.

Anonymous wrote:For the public school admits which will be majority of state schools, the GPAs should be sky high with the rules allowing retests.

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Anonymous wrote:Having read the first ten responses or so I can’t believe no one has said the GPA requirements have moved up with grade inflation in the public schools.

OP, without retakes and grade inflation your kid would not get a B+ in their class, they’d get a C or low B. Ten years ago your kid still would not have received an offer from tech or UVA. The school is not inline with their abilities and/or academic performance.

Agree, it’s a reflection of the grade inflation and retakes in public. My kids all went to different private schools in VA that did not offer all the weighting and retake options. All got into VA colleges with GPAs below the 25% ranges for GPA, and lower test scores now that those are also skewed.

The GPAs are so misleading at this point. Parents thing their kid with a 4.0 is a top student, but they don’t realize there’s a kid with a 4.8 in the same class as their kid.

yep. Had this conversation with a neighbor who thinks her snowflake is a genius with a weighted gpa of 4.1. Her kid is in the bottom 50% of the highschool rankings wise. She could not believe this.

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Anonymous wrote:Having read the first ten responses or so I can’t believe no one has said the GPA requirements have moved up with grade inflation in the public schools.

OP, without retakes and grade inflation your kid would not get a B+ in their class, they’d get a C or low B. Ten years ago your kid still would not have received an offer from tech or UVA. The school is not inline with their abilities and/or academic performance.

Agree, it’s a reflection of the grade inflation and retakes in public. My kids all went to different private schools in VA that did not offer all the weighting and retake options. All got into VA colleges with GPAs below the 25% ranges for GPA, and lower test scores now that those are also skewed.

The GPAs are so misleading at this point. Parents thing their kid with a 4.0 is a top student, but they don’t realize there’s a kid with a 4.8 in the same class as their kid.

Just wanted to put in some context.

The GPA ranges cited by OP sound like our FCPS school (Mclean/Langley) for weighted GPAs of accepted students. If you max out on APs in FCPS, you can get a 4.5 weighted GPA at the max, not including DE courses. LCPS and other systems have different ways to calculate weighted GPA so the max rates are higher.

Our dingbat FCPS school counselor told us that with a weighted GPA of 4.3 and an SAT of 1500+, DC was guaranteed to get into UVA. From past experience with previous DC, we didn't believe her at all. But DC did get in. DC had 4 Bs on their transcript when they applied.

Anyhow, at our school, about 25% of the graduates had weighted GPA of 4.0 or above, at least according to this year's graduation program listing the honors graduates (wGPA 4.0 or higher).

The University of Virginia (UVA) doesn't have minimum GPA or SAT score requirements for admission, but the average GPA of admitted students is around 4.31.

The average GPA at Virginia Tech is 4. This makes Virginia Tech Extremely Competitive for GPAs.

The average GPA at JMU is 3.55.

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Anonymous wrote:Having read the first ten responses or so I can’t believe no one has said the GPA requirements have moved up with grade inflation in the public schools.

OP, without retakes and grade inflation your kid would not get a B+ in their class, they’d get a C or low B. Ten years ago your kid still would not have received an offer from tech or UVA. The school is not inline with their abilities and/or academic performance.

Agree, it’s a reflection of the grade inflation and retakes in public. My kids all went to different private schools in VA that did not offer all the weighting and retake options. All got into VA colleges with GPAs below the 25% ranges for GPA, and lower test scores now that those are also skewed.

The GPAs are so misleading at this point. Parents thing their kid with a 4.0 is a top student, but they don’t realize there’s a kid with a 4.8 in the same class as their kid.

Just wanted to put in some context.

The GPA ranges cited by OP sound like our FCPS school (Mclean/Langley) for weighted GPAs of accepted students. If you max out on APs in FCPS, you can get a 4.5 weighted GPA at the max, not including DE courses. LCPS and other systems have different ways to calculate weighted GPA so the max rates are higher.

Our dingbat FCPS school counselor told us that with a weighted GPA of 4.3 and an SAT of 1500+, DC was guaranteed to get into UVA. From past experience with previous DC, we didn't believe her at all. But DC did get in. DC had 4 Bs on their transcript when they applied.

Anyhow, at our school, about 25% of the graduates had weighted GPA of 4.0 or above, at least according to this year's graduation program listing the honors graduates (wGPA 4.0 or higher).

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Anonymous wrote:The reality also is that a state public university needs to accept students from all over the state. When I was at UVA, a very very high percentage of students came from NoVA — and that is still the case. For many of them, it clearly was HS a 2nd time and they had the same friends from home at UVa.

In Craig County, if any HS student gets accepted to any college, their name and school is posted on the HS sign board out front (meaning only maybe 10-12 per year go off to any college).

In VA Beach, where the public schools are fine but the parents are less obsessive, getting in to UVa often will get a student’s name on the sign board (yes, it is a bit uncommon, so still notable).

In FCPS, UVa attendance in particular is not atball uncommon. Every FCPS HS sends bunches there every year, and the typical HS kid goes to college somewhere.

This is comical. My DS went to school in VB and is at UVA but there are no sign boards. 😆. Lots of kids go to UVA there and always have.

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Anonymous wrote:Having read the first ten responses or so I can’t believe no one has said the GPA requirements have moved up with grade inflation in the public schools.

OP, without retakes and grade inflation your kid would not get a B+ in their class, they’d get a C or low B. Ten years ago your kid still would not have received an offer from tech or UVA. The school is not inline with their abilities and/or academic performance.

Agree, it’s a reflection of the grade inflation and retakes in public. My kids all went to different private schools in VA that did not offer all the weighting and retake options. All got into VA colleges with GPAs below the 25% ranges for GPA, and lower test scores now that those are also skewed.

The GPAs are so misleading at this point. Parents thing their kid with a 4.0 is a top student, but they don’t realize there’s a kid with a 4.8 in the same class as their kid.

Just wanted to put in some context.

The GPA ranges cited by OP sound like our FCPS school (Mclean/Langley) for weighted GPAs of accepted students. If you max out on APs in FCPS, you can get a 4.5 weighted GPA at the max, not including DE courses. LCPS and other systems have different ways to calculate weighted GPA so the max rates are higher.

Our dingbat FCPS school counselor told us that with a weighted GPA of 4.3 and an SAT of 1500+, DC was guaranteed to get into UVA. From past experience with previous DC, we didn't believe her at all. But DC did get in. DC had 4 Bs on their transcript when they applied.

Anyhow, at our school, about 25% of the graduates had weighted GPA of 4.0 or above, at least according to this year's graduation program listing the honors graduates (wGPA 4.0 or higher).

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Anonymous wrote:Having read the first ten responses or so I can’t believe no one has said the GPA requirements have moved up with grade inflation in the public schools.

OP, without retakes and grade inflation your kid would not get a B+ in their class, they’d get a C or low B. Ten years ago your kid still would not have received an offer from tech or UVA. The school is not inline with their abilities and/or academic performance.

Agree, it’s a reflection of the grade inflation and retakes in public. My kids all went to different private schools in VA that did not offer all the weighting and retake options. All got into VA colleges with GPAs below the 25% ranges for GPA, and lower test scores now that those are also skewed.

The GPAs are so misleading at this point. Parents thing their kid with a 4.0 is a top student, but they don’t realize there’s a kid with a 4.8 in the same class as their kid.