Prep School Grades: Lost In Translation

little_galaxie
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:46:00 +0000

I don’t go to college or Andover, but I’m in a similar predicament since I go to Exeter : ) Have you thought about contacting your college counseling office? They could probably give you a chart or something of who got into where with what GPA…

Oh, and PROPS to schools with completely arbitrary grading systems!

Oh, and editing to say that the name probably does count for “something.” With the large numbers of kids matriculating to HYP, MIT, Stanford and the like every year, it would be impossible for them to be all in the top 5%. Here, if you’re in the top 20% it’s considered very good. Schools are generally more understanding with grades because they’re familiar with the schools; I would imagine the same applies to Andover.