Anonymous
10/15/2025 11:30
Subject: do you think GPA is a "threshold" thing like test scores?
Anonymous wrote:An AO shocked us by acknowledging that the MV Calc teacher at our school is a notoriously tough grader. Pointed out that the GPA doesn't treat a B differently in that class, but they do because they know there are only a couple As given out.
I don't think the average newly graduated admissions counselor knows such things, but the senior ones probably do.
The AO told you this? How did you as a parent meet the AO and under what circumstance they disclosed that?
Anonymous
10/14/2025 16:57
Subject: do you think GPA is a "threshold" thing like test scores?
An AO shocked us by acknowledging that the MV Calc teacher at our school is a notoriously tough grader. Pointed out that the GPA doesn't treat a B differently in that class, but they do because they know there are only a couple As given out.
I don't think the average newly graduated admissions counselor knows such things, but the senior ones probably do.
I don't think the average newly graduated admissions counselor knows such things, but the senior ones probably do.