<p>What is being talked about here is not GPA as much as it is class rank.</p>
<p>Our kid was not val, sal or even top 5 student in class based on GPA. (School does not weight any grades when figuring GPA and class rank.) But the kid did take most difficult courses, got mostly As (and a very good GPA), and was admitted to Harvard. Stanford and Princeton turned him down, though. Don’t know if it was the rank issue or something else, but obviously Harvard looked at more than class rank.</p>