<p>sorry i was reading the Cal admissoins process adn based on how difficult ur school is they give your GPA a slight bump maybe like.1 or .15. is that the case with LA?</p>
<p>to put it bluntly, it doesn't matter at this point.</p>
<p>there is no way in hell they can know which HIGH schools are good and which are crappy. For example, im assuming you go to Arcadia High School (a very good school). BUT, there are BETTER, TOUGHER high schools in california. So now what? Give arcadia apps an extra .11 pts and the better school an extra .14 pts??? What about schools perceived to be slightly worse than Arcadia? Its too subjective, but who knows what really goes on in the admissions committees. Everything you hear about "what colleges give extra pts to and how the committees "grade" an app" is here-say, because frankly nobody knows. </p>
<p>It's the sad truth, but sometimes its better to go to a BS high school and get a 4.0 than go to somewhere like Arcadia and work your a** off and get a 3.5. However, your "Arcadia" education will help you in college because, for at least the first 2-3 quarters, you'll have an advantage over ppl who took the easy HS way out (if they had a choice) in terms of study habits and test taking.</p>
<p>flong.</p>
<p>chill.</p>
<p>whatever the case may be, it won't change the outcome next week.</p>
<p>oh yeah i know my decisions made already but i was curious to A) see if going to a better hs helps admissions and B) i need to talk to a few junior classes about college choices/stats and it might be comforting to know difficulty of hs does infact help them</p>
<p>the flong guy could be right. my school, harker, is a ridiculously hard private school. but our school gets like 60 people out of a class of like 160 people who get into ucla, ucb, and ucsd. but not everyone has like 4.0's here cuz the school is really hard.</p>
<p>Well, since they get your school's CEEB number, they also know it's API score too. If your school has a ridiculously high API, then, sure, an admissions officer might forgive something slightly sub par, but the term slightly should be emphasized. It's one matter to say that a student with a 3.7 but going to a hard HS can get in to a highly selective school like UCLA, but it's another to say that a student with a 3.2 but going to a hard HS can get into UCSD. There doesn't seem to be a quantifiable "GPA boost", only considerations and accommodations for those electing to engage in a more rigorous high school curriculum.</p>
<p>yeah we're top 200 in nation. im hoping they condone my gpa a little!</p>