GPA Significance in Top High School

milee30
Sun, 20 May 2018 21:01:35 +0000

Good example of how different schools have differing relationships with colleges. Our Naviance data only showed hard and fast cutoffs for very metric based schools like our state flagship. For top selectives, there were no clear cutoff lines.

@LoonDude - can you get access to Naviance data for your HS? If so, look up the acceptance scattergrams for 8-10 of the schools you’re interested in. If the charts show sharp cutoffs at certain GPA levels, that will help guide you on how your school’s GPA system is viewed by colleges. Remember that this is just raw data on two app points only, so it’s not a full story and things like hooks (legacy, recruited athletes, urm, etc) can create data anomalies. For the record, my son had zero hooks so some of the Naviance data for our school wasn’t relevant.