<p>I was looking at the decisions thread and how come everyone has a 4.0.....-_- besides ur UW GPA that just counts core classes right? And A-s and As are weighted differently right?? How does everyone have a 4.0 all thru high school wow =P</p>
<p>The trick for my D was just to learn to live without sleep. :eek:</p>
<p>Narcissa: there are high schools where EVERYONE has 4.0 UW and there are HS where only a select few do.....You would hope that all colleges acknowledge this, but, unfortunately, only some do....I would imagine that Harvard is one of those few.....</p>
<p>Believe it or not, most people are actually pretty intelligent...</p>
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You would hope that all colleges acknowledge this, but, unfortunately, only some do....I would imagine that Harvard is one of those few.....
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All colleges take this into consideration. What most high school students (and many others) fail to realize is that most people are intelligent enough to graduate from even the most rigorous, challenging universities (like Harvard) with a degree. That's why there is the holistic admissions system...</p>
<p>"The trick for my D was just to learn to live without sleep"</p>
<p>My mom hates when I get less than eight hours. How do you define "without sleep"?</p>
<p>completely without sleep doesn't work even in the short term. 4-5 hours a night can for some people. i can do that much for a week, but then i do need to crash on the weekend. but honestly, i suspect harvard admits/ harvard students are more likely to stay up until 3 working on ec's than obsessing over their gpa.</p>
<p>i didn't have a 4.0.....</p>
<p>I obsessed over my GPA and my ECs ... oh and throughout senior year, I averaged about 4 hours of sleep :)</p>
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How does everyone have a 4.0 all thru high school wow =P
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<p>Rampant grade inflation. Not a single person at my high school who was either accepted or waitlisted at Harvard (11) has a GPA anywhere close to 4.0.</p>
<p>KWU, very cynical, my D went to 3 high schools in 4 years (in 3 countries)and was able to maintain a 4.0. All different systems 2 AP/1IB. 2 public 1 private. Some people work hard and do well regardless of their situation, others may have to work harder. To say that anyone who get a 4.0 got it due to grade inflation is unfair to those students who worked hard and earned the A.</p>
<p>simple...</p>
<p>my school is extremely stupid and easy...</p>
<p>kwu isn't being cynical. he is right. different grading systems and different levels of competition make gpa very significantly. that's why colleges make you take the sat's. what would be the point if there weren't variation in grades?</p>
<p>Innervisions, what the SAT fails to account for are those students from wealthier backgrounds or from families who are willing to sacrifice the resources for prep courses.</p>
<p>Well, there seems to be a strong correlation between GPA and SAT scores at my high school, anyway.</p>
<p>Those people with GPAs between 3.2 and 3.7 have anywhere between a 2000 and a 2200, 3.8+ between 2200 and 2300, and 3.9+ 2300+. So, it works, I suppose. I myself had a 3.7 and a 2150. Then again, my high school has an unorthodox grading system and neither ranks nor offers AP courses.</p>
<p>I just find myself flinching whenever I hear friends from other high schools complaining about 95s.</p>
<p>Also, this:
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<p>Students can't compare themselves to each other here on CC. All students are viewed equally because the high school "profile" is sent along with a students transcripts. We have a personal friend who is an interviewer for a top 10 school and he told us that a student with a lower gpa/sat that comes from a school where the "profile" is lower will be scored the same as a student that has a higher gpa/sat that came from a school with a higher "profile". A student cannot be viewed in a negative light because his/her school doesn't offer IB or Ap's. The median income is also on this profile. So that students who come from a lower income school don't get jeopardized for not being able to afford prep courses etc. </p>
<p>It's all fair in the end. The BIG question is "What are adcoms looking for at the time they review your file?" or Do they want more medical students or more history majors? Do they want more females or males. You just don't know what they want at the time they review your file.</p>
<p>My school's grading system:</p>
<p>4.0= 89.5-100
3.0= 79.5-89.4
2.0= 69.5-79.4
1.0= 59.5-69.4</p>
<p>Its not that hard...</p>
<p>^^^ haha kinda similar to ours...i can give u an example...
90-99(margin of error makes it impossible for 100%)= A+
80-89.4=A
75-79.4=B+
70-74.4=B</p>
<p>and ive never gotten lower than 70 back in grade 9 on 1 course, so i wouldnt know the rest but thats pretty much what u need to know...</p>
<p>my school, to obtain honour roll, u need 80% average... equivalent to an A... if you want Silver Medal Honour Roll thats a 90%+... equivalent to an A+... thus, if u started out bad in grade 9 having a few bad grades, but had many A's with some A+'s, you can easily get 4.0 at my school (though, 28% of the school of 1200 students has an A average, while about 25 students have A+)</p>
<p>thats canadian system though, and im a tri-citizen so i dont have to worry about international applicant WOOT WOOT... love having some immigration law backround...</p>
<p>I have a 5.0 unweighted. A 5.062. On a 4.0 scale. That's right. I beat the scale.</p>
<p>This is literally what my guidance counselor wrote on my college apps. Why? Because my school doesn't understand what "a 4.0 scale" and "unweighted" mean....</p>
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Why? Because my school doesn't understand what "a 4.0 scale" and "unweighted" mean....
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oh lmao. lucky tho; if my school was like that i wouldn't have to worry about grades.</p>
<p>^^ well, like, you can still see the grades on my transcript. and it's not A, B, C, etc., it's a number from 0 to 99. Plus, rank is very competitive, given that a few points can make a big difference (ergh, top two are within 0.05 of each other I think). Just the number "GPA" doesn't necessarily mean much, except that I have As in highest-level classes.</p>
<p>oh i guess that still sucks then. ah well =P</p>