<p>I am, in fact, undercutting the notion of GPA.</p>
<p>Brown has undercut that notion for sometime:<a href=“http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/faculty/documents/gpaStatement.pdf[/url]”>http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/faculty/documents/gpaStatement.pdf</a> </p>
<p>While Brown currently uses a measure not so different from GPA for magna, there quire discussions going on right now as to whether that measure makes sense. Additionally, it is against faculty rules and regulations to withhold honors from a student based on GPA-- you can ask for quality grades, but there can be no official cut off and honors is primarily supposed to be a reflection of the quality of one’s thesis.</p>
<p>I don’t think we need to not report lowest SAT score because of the mental health for that individual, but I do think it’s absolute insanity to think that number is: 1) Helpful to prospective students, because clearly there’s something else which is exceptional about that student that you won’t know; 2) Not going to be used in an abusive fashion; 3) Providing you with significantly more information than the 25-75 range does.</p>