@ncswimmom “I work for a large university and see more “weeding out” using GPA for various programs and scholarship opportunities than I would like to see.”
For the reasons you mention in your post, one would think that schools would use a blend of gpa and test scores to assess the student. That should highlight that a 4.0 gpa with a 24 ACT is not the same as a 3.6 gpa with 32 ACT. An 8 point gap in ACT score is too much of a difference, and tells me that the rigor of the two schools was significantly different.