NorthBeachPerso
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Then they should stop accepting students who aren't qualified. Instead they accept lower SAT scores, lower GPAs, students who have take remediation classes.
Question about HS GPA
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3CATSAILOR
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Very true. Look at any near by Colleges and what do you see? It is not just local though. It is everywhere to include local. I taught Calculus many years ago. Less than 5% of the student body was able to take Calculus.
I did well in high school mathematics, but when I got to college I could not wrap my brain around calculus. Torpedoed my hope of being an electrical engineer, switched to business.
Anita on the other hand, did really well in calculus, differential equations and other such. She graduated Magna cum Laue with a BSEE. Went on to earn an MSEE in her first 2 years an a Air Force officer.
SamSpade
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I've been in exercises where we review applications, resumes etc. When you have thousands of applicants - you ditch the ones with raw scores below a certain amount. Mediocre SAT and B+ level GPA? Dump them. You have a thousand more to finish before lunch time.
They do NOT spend the time scrutinizing every part of your academic record. A perfect GPA and perfect SAT score, they don't care if you participated in anything. Bear in mind, the college, especially an elite one, wants to know if you'll succeed academically. It's just being pragmatic.
What I want to know has nothing to do with COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. What I want to know is, does the HIGH SCHOOL compute the GPA with difficulty as a consideration? As I mentioned - our co-valedictorians took different paths to a perfect GPA, but one took the hardest path imaginable, and the other the easiest. Because my school JUST LOOKED AT GRADES to compute the GPA. I don't know if the easy path valedictorian went anywhere to school afterward - but someone ELSE didn't get valedictorian, because she got in there with easy courses.
They do NOT spend the time scrutinizing every part of your academic record. A perfect GPA and perfect SAT score, they don't care if you participated in anything. Bear in mind, the college, especially an elite one, wants to know if you'll succeed academically. It's just being pragmatic.
What I want to know has nothing to do with COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. What I want to know is, does the HIGH SCHOOL compute the GPA with difficulty as a consideration? As I mentioned - our co-valedictorians took different paths to a perfect GPA, but one took the hardest path imaginable, and the other the easiest. Because my school JUST LOOKED AT GRADES to compute the GPA. I don't know if the easy path valedictorian went anywhere to school afterward - but someone ELSE didn't get valedictorian, because she got in there with easy courses.
PeoplesElbow
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I think when you mentioned scholarships it went off the rail into admissions, not sure why but it did.
It would help to know where, because I know different places that do it differently. We were really impressed with someone's resume that listed a 4.0 GPA, but it turned out their school system computed that based on 5.0 being the highest.
Mine a 4 was assigned for an A, but a few years later they changed to a 4.2 for an A+, 4 for an A, and 3.8 for an A-.
kwillia
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Yes, harder classes carry weighted value. My straight A student graduated with a 4.35 GPA. She tallied up 43 college credits from taking a large number of AP classes and scoring mostly 5s and a couple 4s on the tests. Even with all that her guidance counselor told her to be sure to shotgun her college applications beyond the colleges SHE chose to consider because colleges do not just select which students to accept base on grades alone. All colleges have quotas and what would now be called ‘equitable’ scoring to achieve.
I shared what I learned. I shared what we learned in order to provide you a heads up to maximize your daughter’s chances of vying for the precious few scholarships doled out each year. GPA is only a part of scoring and the first hurdle is really getting selected by a college you applied to.
I shared what I learned. I shared what we learned in order to provide you a heads up to maximize your daughter’s chances of vying for the precious few scholarships doled out each year. GPA is only a part of scoring and the first hurdle is really getting selected by a college you applied to.