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tocollege
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:43:23 +0000

ucbalumnus, I agree that many high schools use (as you say) “odd” weighting systems, which end up giving nearly the entire school a weighted GPA over 4.0. I feel those schools are artificially inflating grades to make their students “look” better to colleges (or in other words, using SERIOUS grade inflation). That is why, as I said, colleges and universities take a look at rank to give them a more realistic picture of applicants from that school. But thanks so much for explaining it to me…