Sat-GPA Disconnect

nyc
Sat, 24 May 2008 16:31:24 +0000

MommaJ, the method is equally useful if one sits for the test in fall of senior year and again in early winter.

“In a select private school, I’m sure she’d fall out of the top 25%.”

That’s why even non-selctive private schools don’t rank. At any school where most students are college bound, ranking helps only the kids at the top - - and puts the middle and bottom kids at a real disadvantag.