@HPuck35 it’s because, unlike most schools, we don’t convert GPAs internally, so there is no common base of comparison to report.
I didn’t take @collegedad13 as calling me a liar, FWIW. I don’t like to give people chances for the reasons in the blog post I linked. I’ve blogged a lot about why it’s difficult to make sense of data and why it’s hard to predict the outcome of a case before you see it in front of you (c.f. the indeterminacy thesis in critical legal theory). As a rule, we don’t tell people to not-apply to MIT, although we may not tell someone to apply to MIT (i.e., by restricting our recruitment parameters to a tighter academic band than some of our peers).
It’s all very complicated, this business of applying to college, from all sides.