<p>after reading all this, my bottom line is, there is a lot of ‘games’ being played by the high schools, ranking agencies, and the colleges themselves.</p>
<p>Given that GPA from one school can’t be directly compared with one from another school, and the ranking is also subject to all sort of “tinkering”, do adcoms in selective and competitive universities/colleges conscientiously try to crack the code and evaluate kids as fairly as possible??? The politically correct answer is yes, but we all know psychology: mind will always try to find a solution that requires least amount of energy investment. It’s much easier to just look at the numbers presented on the paper and go from there, than to wrack one’s brain to decipher the true meaning of all the numbers and figures.</p>
<p>HR Jr S2 will be aiming at Top 30-60 range schools, and I wonder how this is going to play out.</p>