Don't understand the 2nd guessing.

emeraldkity4
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:11:18 +0000

Maybe those kids were unable to get into a higher academic tier of schools that would match their capabilities than their state/city flagships(sometimes even with honors programs) because they attended a highly rigorous public magnet high school where the rigor/grading was such that their GPAs were in the toilet.

Both my kids attended rigorous urban schools ( one private one public) neither had weighting, but every year students go on to top colleges because the school profile states the average SATs & grades as well as what schools grads attend.
If the school profile in your area isn’t accurate, how are the colleges supposed to know this?

Rigorous schools go by more than grades or even test scores to admit students- I know because my oldest graduated in STEM from one of the above schools yet her GPA/SAT scores were well below the average admitted student.
( she entered as a freshman)