About the value of GPA & the grade trends.

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<p>I don’t know if these stories overlap with the one I’m most familiar with, who comes from another message board, but there was a rather infamous character over there who had spectacular numbers and didn’t get into any of (if memory serves) the top 25 schools.</p>

<p>This also turns up in medical school admissions, where I’ve seen the same thing happen repeatedly to those of my college classmates who applied young.</p>