<p>No national scoring program - states with state based education system - mostly in the south have state standards with their EOC’s - Like North Carolina. I don’t think states will give up this “control” to the federal government.</p>
<p>Here in the Northeast/mid-atlantic education is very localized. All decisions on courses, content, grading systems are made locally. And they vary widely.</p>
<p>GPA is only good to compare kids in the same school - but even then it is faulty. My kids took all honors courses and got no weighting - and kids who chose to take all Academic (college prep) got higher GPA’s because the classes were much easier and graded easier. </p>
<p>Class rank is useful in comparing how a student does compared to their peers - it better than comparing GPA’s but not much.</p>
<p>One of my kids didn’t get in NHS - despite getting decent grades in all Honor’s classes - her school looks at 9th and 10th grade - does not weight honors and she only had a B+ - unweighted. Kids got in who never ever took an honors course because their GPA was over 3.5 - talk about ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>I am really confident that most colleges look at gpa and transcripts - they recalculate GPA based on courses they took.
USC (south carolina) does this as does Elon university and I know St Joe’s in Philly has done this for years.
I don’t think in college applications our kids are being “cheated” by school calculating GPA’s in a screwy method.</p>