My school is unfair!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>We're one of the top private schools in Asia, and our courses are extremely rigorous.
My school only allows people to join NHS in their junior year and only allows students to take AP's in junior year as well. No one in my school has a 4.0 GPA because it's literally impossible - some teachers don't believe in giving people A's. My school also limits the amount of service clubs you can join and you can usually only join two sports teams maximum or else practice times interfere with each other (varsity teams meet 4 times a week). </p>

<p>I feel at a disadvantage compared to many schools that are much easier and whose students have 4.0 cumulative GPA's. And on top of that, many students from other schools have a tremendous amount of EC's, AP's, clubs just because their school allows it. </p>

<p>How do colleges take this into account? Or do they not?</p>

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<p>I have a similar school. Colleges place heavy emphasis on the rigor of the secondary school. For example, two or three people from my school with 3.3 GPA’s got into Columbia University. If those students were from another school, they would most likely have gotten rejected.</p>

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<p>I think that if you explain it (and they may already know about it) then they’ll be a little leaniant(sp? sorry not my strong point) anyways do what your allowed and be as competitive as you can.</p>

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<p>Yeah, colleges should generally see how tough your school is with regards to gpa and explain how they are ranked and such. Anyway, I have a 3.35 UW at my school right now, yet I’m in the running for low Ivies and equivalents. People from our school with gpas like 3.5-3.6 are accepted to the medium Ivies, so it is kind of weird for us.</p>