<p>Our dd’s school has just decided to start weighting grades. (It doesn’t rank). Many of the kids get into fabulous schools but, reading between the lines and on the basis of our own situation, I would say that yes, the higher scores and lower grades have hurt in some cases. There is no problem with colleges that “know” her school and recognize that a 3.3 hardly = “slacker”, but the situation is a bit different with colleges that either aren’t acquainted with it due to distance or have such a huge applicant pool that they focus largely on a grade/score grid. And kids have also had a tougher time with merit $$ than their public school peers who might have lower scores but GPAs above 4.0.</p>