<p>I would have to assume that if my son sent his application into… lets say Duke just for argument sake that they would not get past the 3.6 and look further to see his actual transcript and the upward trend in his grades, is this not accurate? I by the way am fine with that, he is not a candidate for a Duke, but he is a candidate for many other wonderful schools. It makes sense that schools have a minimum GPA as a way to weed out and in potential candidates, they get thousands of apps how could they possibly not have a quick way to narrow that down to the ones that are really possible and then at that point look closer at the app, the transcript, the testing, the EC’s the essays, letters of recommendation of those that at least meet the minimum criteria?</p>