<p>Does Cornell recalculate High School GPA? How do they do it?</p>
<p>they do and how they do i is a mystery.
just take hard courses and get the best grades you can. try to stay in top 10% of your class.
if you are already applying, hope for the best.</p>
<p>It must be hard for them to compare GPAs from different schools.</p>
<p>I wonder if they keep a record of how students that come from each school perform at Cornell, in relation to their GPA at their high school. Like, I find Cornell and Williams will usually take the valadictorian of my high school....but the last person that went to Harvard was in my mother's graduating class. </p>
<p>Like a kid from my high school who had a 99% average, captain of the tennis team, star football and basketball player. EC's were like honor society, student council, spanish club...ect. </p>
<p>Between sports and school, I can't immagine him possibly doing anything more. But he was deferred, then rejected at Princeton, rejected from Yale, and waitlisted at Dartmouth....he's going to Williams so he's not roughing it by any means. But it makes me wonder what they're looking for!</p>
<p>Although I suppose class rank would probably be a better indication...which is probably what they put more weight on.</p>
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<p>Absolutely right. And the adcoms have revealed it too (in books published by them).</p>
<p>that can always be calculated if they still have the data. and maybe that's how they know which schools are ivy feeders</p>
<p>Ironically, StPlayrXtreme, I had the same results, rejected at Princeton & Yale, wait-listed at Dartmouth, but didn't know much about Williams (probably wouldn't have gotten in anyway) and instead went to Colgate.</p>
<p>Noone from my school has ever gone to Cornell I think lol. Wonder how they viewed that...(small school...noone really ever goes to Ivy period lol).</p>
<p>p.s. Williams is an amazing school...</p>