11th marks deflation?

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>For those who applied (and got in) to a top US university, what were your 11th marks? My 10th marks are fine, my 12th half yearlies are fine too, but my 11th final is like 60%. That effectively kills my whole application to many colleges that I'd like to apply to.</p>

<p>Also, how is GPA calculated for Indian students? My school (DPS RKP) doesn't rank, and the transcripts it sends does not have any grade/GPA, just percentages. So if, for example, the average GPA of an MIT admit is 3.8, does that include Indian students? (3.8 = 95% ? No one gets 95% =/ )</p>

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<p>You already have the answer.NO ONE gets 95%=)</p>

<p>I think its pretty common with everyone.</p>

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<p>Does your school provide an approximate decile rank, or list the class averages?</p>

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<p>No decile rank. Just the highest marks, and the class average. I’m above the class average, but definitely not the highest. That doesn’t much help though. It doesn’t provide my rank.</p>

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<p>60%? IIT-JEE I presume :P</p>

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<p>Yea… Though I quit my JEE classes towards the end. My school happens to be ridiculously competitive though, so I was quite proud of my 60%… (I hadn’t thought of applying abroad then)</p>

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<p>Oh…I get a decile rank.</p>

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<p>I don’t many Indian schools that rank or give a GPA. The Yale admissions officer said that it is actually a big plus that we don’t have class ranks or GPA coz it gives our application a lot more “wiggle room”.</p>

<p>blue box- don’t worry about your marks, they’re ok. Apply away!!</p>

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<p>Blue_box - I am a DPS student as well and I scored a 55+ % in grade 11 . I think you can ask the school registrar to put up the class rank on the transcripts (as I was 10th in my class out of 60+ students) .</p>

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<p>I’d prefer it if class rank wasn’t put up on my mark sheet actually. I don’t know my exact rank, but it’s definitely not something as good as “10 out of 60”. I asked my school counselor and she gave several examples of people who got 60s-70s in 11th and got into MIT, Princeton, and Stanford. There seems to be hope for me after all. =)</p>

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<p>Hey blue_box, I know how hard 11th in DPS RKP can be, I got like a 40% in my half yearlies, after a 90% in my boards! And the class rank with all the externals, would most definitely not be good, so its best to not get that put on the transcript. But I think if you have good SAT scores, and good marks in all the other grades, then it should not be much of a problem. Ultimately all it comes down to, is the ECA’s, essays, recs… etc. since nearly everyone applying to MIT from India has pretty comparable scores.</p>