<p>Son is a senior. His school doesn’t compute a GPA, but when I compute a weighted GPA it is a bit below 3 on a 4.0 scale. I know it doesn’t compare to all the GPAs I see posted here. However, his college counseling office assured us that many colleges know about the tough grading policies at his high school. For example, the local large state university automatically adds a 0.5 to the grades for students from his highschool (or so we are told). Several students from his highschool each year go to highly selective schools (ivies etc) and 100% of students go to college.</p>