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I think “chances” threads get in the way of the threads where there are good questions and conversations happening. </p>
<p>What’s more, they seem to send students on a roller coaster of emotions and the people responding are truly guessing about an outcome based on limited date without context. Even if a student posted the full high school profile, it’d be pointless to try to predict how a selective school would view the entire application, which contains more elements.</p>
<p>AVA55 is right. The GPA has become a highly creative calculation and is pretty much meaningless without context. There are schools where the majority of the class has a GPA over 4.0.</p>