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<p>You’re right. GPA alone is meaningless. Different schools calculate it differently and have different grading systems. GPA is useful in the context of the student’s transcript and high school.</p>
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2. Gives each class equal weight; for example if you are on track to be an engineering major shouldnt math & science classes be given more weight than english or foreign language
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<p>Colleges don’t really want you to only be good at one thing. A broad range of knowledge is useful.</p>
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<p>No. Your grades improved, so your GPA improved as well. Your grades are overall still worse than someone who did not improve because he/she already had the highest grades on the scale; your GPA appropriately reflects that.</p>
<p>Further, admissions committees like to see upward trends and will generally count that in your favor. They don’t just look at the GPA; they look at the transcript as a whole to put the GPA in context.</p>
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<p>This is true at some schools. It is not true at others. And colleges, unlike formulas, can see through someone doing this. They can see the test scores and the transcript, and guess what–students like these are often rejected in favor of lower-ranked students from the same high school. It sometimes works in high school; it doesn’t work in admissions.</p>
<p>Also, just because some students manage to game the system doesn’t mean the system doesn’t do its job in general.</p>