GPA Significance in Top High School

tdy123
Sun, 20 May 2018 14:40:55 +0000

@LoonDude The last thing you wrote: “I am a freshman so I have time to improve.” was the most important. You do, indeed have plenty of time to improve.

@milee30 wrote something that might appear accurate in theory, but is not in practice at very competitive high schools: “Many high schools - especially the very competitive ones - are no longer reporting class rank to colleges. If your HS doesn’t report class rank, that will also be helpful to you since your A average will stand on its own without showing you’re in the bottom half of the class.”

The reasons this doesn’t work in practice are:
a) the school report provides statistical data that puts individual students transcripts in context of the range of performance at the school;
b) the most highly selective colleges will get a thick stack of applications from the same top high schools every year that will quickly show the relative strength of each student’s GPA in pretty clear context;
c) if a and b weren’t enough, regional admissions officers are intimately familiar with the top high schools in their assigned area and know very well what a GPA means at that school.