<p>I think the top 10% is how the hs reports it…</p>
<p>meaning even if a hs doesn’t rank-
—the hs profile does include the bands of GPAs in say the past 3-4 yrs etc and where kids went to school, APs offered etc…</p>
<p>So a college will know looking at the applicants/matriculating students current GPA s caculated by their hs and know where they are going to probably land come graduation…
–ie in which band…and if its in the top 10%…</p>
<p>I think colleges then use that in their data–not that they recalculate anything…
with that data they can say whether the kid was in the top 10%…etc</p>
<p>I suppose it hurst kids who come from pretty vigorous programs where into the 2 - 3 decimal places can make or break top 10%, top quarter…</p>