Which is better: a 3.0 at HYPS or a 4.0 at a state school?

College Search & Selection
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At UCB "less than 5% were D's or F's".

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<p>Is this the report from the college of Letters and sciences, or from all the colleges on campus?</p>

<p>Did you take into account the difference in SAT gathering between the two schools (best combined vs. best single sitting)?</p>

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but large differences in high school preparation

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<p>Could you demonstrate that? So far, all you’ve done is shown Stanford’s average SAT I scores (best combined) against Berkeley’s (best single sitting), and now you’re extending that to high school preparation (not even working with number of AP classes taken or any other factor) with an unnamed number of schools (10? 20?). Which “elite privates” are you referring to?</p>

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We know that the distribution of grades at both colleges is remarkably similar,

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<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/stanford.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gradeinflation.com/stanford.html&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/berkeley.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gradeinflation.com/berkeley.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Do you think that these average GPAs are “remarkably similar?”</p>