Most of the college AO’s that have spoken have told us they don’t consider FOA because there are so many different scales and so much inflation/deflation. (They said some schools have a GOA scale of 13) So they look at. performance of the student (grades) relative to their peers and the rigor of the courses taken. We have heard this from numerous AOs from various college settings (LACs, Public, Private). So I don’t really care about that…except with a system like SCOIR or Naviance, it makes it a bit more difficult because those systems use GPAs for their scattergrams of school placements, etc.
The majority of BSs have steered away from the rank/GPA system, it seems.