| If I understand this correctly, you unweight by the school's formula and then apply your grade conversions without giving any direct benefit to the GPA for taking AP or honors courses? In that context, how would you compare those who took the more rigorous program with those who did not? We did hear a strong emphasis on taking AP courses at the admissions session. From the average, it seems that most students admitted to JHU have a nearly straight A average. Is it therefore possible that the student who did challenge himself by taking all APs/Honors but received some Bs would have a lower likelihood of admission than a student who took a smattering of APs/honirs and level ones but achieved all As? Or do all of your admits have the same profile of coursework?
Given this, how does JHU assess for grade inflation/deflation, etc across schools? If a student has an English teacher, for example, who refuses to give more than two As in the class, etc, compared to another school where the English teacher is far more generous?
Honestly, you have a very difficult job and I am sure there is no one right way to do this but there sure are a lot of potentially confounding factors. |