| I have always noted that the college guides do not say X number of students are from magnet high schools, or the top 500 public hs in the country. Yet gpas are listed ie: ave. gpa for incoming freshman is 3.9. The 3.9 may mean less next to a 3.0 from a top hs. It seems as though colleges are rewarded for accepting the 4.0 student from a less competitive hs, than the 3.0 student from a more competitive one, b/c those are the numbers that go into the guidebooks. Haven't you noticed how many kids have taken a large number of AP classes, and have very high gpas, but their sat scores are quite low? This is one of the only reasons that I am in favor of standardized tests. It exposes what is going on to some extent - grade inflation, AP classes with little substance. |