I’m currently a junior in high school, and I have a cumulative 4.3 weighted GPA. This year, though, I had a 4.9 weighted GPA and rank fourth in my class out of 88. I’m just curious, even though there are other factors that will be considered, but do I have(gradewise) what it takes to get into Duke?
I’m not sure how your school weights GPA. I had a 6.47 GPA junior year so I assume that we had very different weighting. That being said, I’m guessing your weighted GPA is out of a 5.0 so that is pretty impressive that you had a 4.9. If that is the case, then yes you have the grades for Duke but ECs and your essays are far more important because pretty much every applicant will have the grades.
In my opinion, your grades aren’t nearly important as your test scores, if strictly talking stats. Of course your ECs matter a ton…but since you seem to be talking strictly numbers, I’d say you are ok academically, but you should try to score a top percentile ACT/SAT.