<p>"A majority of kids have 4.0 averages"!! Not in most of the schools I know, including my son's prep school. Agree that MANY of the applicants to the highly selective schools have 4.0 averages, in many cases due to grade inflation, but it is certainly not true that a majority of kids have 4.0 averages. My son's school uses a 6 point scale, but the grade of 6 is almost never awarded.</p>