<p>A lot of schools don’t have Naviance, including ours. Our high school has a book showing the SAT, GPA, class rank, and number of AP courses for each student that applied to each college, along with status of attend, accepted, waitlisted, denied. The data runs to many pages for certain popular schools and of course is not sortable unless you hand copy all the numbers, take them home and put them into an Excel spreadsheet.</p>
<p>In terms of the formula idea, I have a concern with how GPAs are calculated by schools. While the common data set asks for the information on a 4.0 scale, it is clear that some schools have used weighted GPAs. For example, the UVA average is listed as 4.05.
“C12. Average high school GPA of all degree-seeking first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA: 4.05”
If you were applying from out of state, your high school’s weighting system may be entirely different and therefore the GPA would not be comparable. I’m sure the admissions folks are smart enough to make the proper adjustments, but I don’t know how the out of state applicant could. And, if UVA shows their data this way, I have to believe other schools do as well. There have been numerous threads demonstrating that weighting in one school district is not at all comparable to the weighting process in another district or state.</p>