<p>I have a 3.65 uw gpa and I am taking mostly aps and honors except for english. My high school is around the top 200 high schools in the country. Will this be enough to compensate for my lower gpa so that it is decent enough for an ivy league?</p>
<p>Mickey</p>
<p>Here’s the short answer – maybe. The Ivies are generaly well aware of the grading policies of the top HS, and take it into account.</p>
<p>Here’s the better answer.</p>
<p>Find out whether your school uses Naviance. If so, get an acccount, and look up the numbers for the Schools you’re interested in.</p>
<p>In case anyone doesn’t know, Naviance allows students to log in, and look at the admissions statistics to most students for students from your HS. So, let’s say you wanted to see how students from your HS did when they applied to Cornell.</p>
<p>If you see that many students with a 3.65 or lower from your HS were accepted by Cornell, then it becomes a Target School. In the other hand, if only one person was ever accepted with a GPA lower than 3.8 (and you suspect that he was the all-american lacrosse player who went there), then probably not too good a chance.</p>
<p>Not really. Adcoms usually do not look too much into your schools grading system unless it is different. They would not get through applications as quickly as they do if they looked into the rigor of every high school a student came from.</p>