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<p>I fear you may be correct, though I must confess that the reasoning seems illogical to me. Wouldn’t the student who challenged herself be more desirable than the one who breezed through an easy school with straight A’s? I would think the latter would be more likely to need remediation when the workload started abruptly ramping up in the higher level colleges. My daughter could have easily been number one in her former “top” school, but it was too easy, and there was lots of remediation of other students already going on from the beginning. In her current school, you had to quickly learn to sink or swim and get your problems solved yourself, without parental help, since it was residential. If you didn’t, you ended up being asked to leave, and they lose about a third of every class. How is that not more like college - and the real world? It concerns me that colleges wouldn’t analyze it this way.</p>