<p>I think GPA is just dumb. Different schools have different standards. Colleges don't have the right to judge a person from his/her gpa. For instance, some county in my state award 10 extra points for an AP class, while my school just gives 7 extra points for an AP. And seriously, your GPA is dependent on your teacher. I have a friend in another county. He had a 97 in AP world history. He ended up with a 1 on the ap exam. I had an 80 in my ap world class, and guess what, I got a 4 on the ap exam. Obviously his teacher just gave a bunch of easy grades. But GUESS WHAT! Colleges ususally don't look at ap exam results, in fact you don't have to submit the scores. And now my friend has a close to 4.0 gpa and I have a 3.7 weighted.</p>
<p>What should they use to judge your schoolwork then?</p>
<p>^ agree with that question</p>
<p>your gpa is the only thing that represents 4 years of work in high school and your high school is often taken into account when looking at your gpa so… chill</p>
<p>They don’t judge GPA as much as transcript…the transcript is what really gives colleges insight on how hard-working/diligent an applicant is and whether he/she is willing to challenge him/herself. You are right in saying that GPA is not always an accurate measure since different schools have different standards; however, colleges will take that into consideration so don’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>This school won’t let me in because my gpa isn’t good. Why do we do school work anyway. At my friends school they don’t do as much work as us and he has a better Gpa.</p>
<p>Don’t whine about stupid ****</p>
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That’s why they also take into account class rank, to compare your grades with your peers. I’m sorry if you don’t like it, but it is a good measure of how your overall achievement in your high school classes, and an easy way to measure it also.</p>
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Yes they do.</p>
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That’s why they convert it into their own scale, so that they can compare students from any school, even when the individual schools weigh grades differently.</p>
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The only statement I agree with on your post. but stilll, when they compare your gpa with your class rank, if a lot of people in your school have a near perfect gpa, then yeah. They’ll know it’s not too rigorous.</p>
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You want some cheese with that wine?</p>
<p>I agree with u and not these bs responses</p>
<p>Adcoms are assigned regions and they study the school systems there. Don’t worry, they know how your school calculates GPA, etc. </p>
<p>Your school provides that info, and adcoms research.</p>
<p>High school grades are the #1 predictor of college grades.</p>
<p>Yes^^</p>
<p>They care about what grade you got in a class (and how rigorous ie honors or AP) than what your GPA is</p>
<p>They can judge us based on standardized testes(SAT, APs, etc)</p>
<p>Now, the question is do grades show any correlation between quality products/services produced by the said person?</p>
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Doesn’t tell them how hard you work in class. Plus, it’s an inferior predictor of college success compared to HS grades.</p>
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Doesn’t matter for college admissions.</p>
<p>If you don’t believe that my friend got a 1, it’s totally fine. I know it is hard for you to believe anything you haven’t seen. Human doesn’t like to thing about stuff they are not familiar with. I don’t care if you think the world is flat. In fact one of my friend who has a perfect score on the SAT got an honor code violation. Don’t believe it? Well…the world is weird.Get used to it.</p>
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Doesn’t tell them how hard you work in class. Plus, it’s an inferior predictor of college success compared to HS grades.
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<p>Do you mean that my friend worked hard for that 97 in class? What does it prove when he did not do well on an exam that has some “standard”?</p>
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Doesn’t matter for college admissions.
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<p>According to you, colleges would prefer my friend over me? I don’t think you can compare an “A” in algebra to an “A” in calculus.</p>
<p>Your friend is not the norm. An average is not destroyed by an internet anecdote.</p>
<p>“My friend got a 2300 on his SAT and failed out of DeVry. SATs suck, disregard my lower score.”</p>
<p>See, I can do it, too.</p>
<p>Lol. I’m totally fine with that. Of course some people are not going to believe it. Guess what! Dedicated students are more likely to cheat than normal students. Boom! Did that blow your mind? It’s a known fact among teachers. You can doubt everything you want. No one cares. I know it is hard to believe in someone over the internet, but it just makes yourself look bad when you randomly accuse people.</p>
<p>Oh, I believe you about your friend. One person. Amongst 3 million college-bound student that year. One. Person. Probably more like him, but not enough to change the facts.</p>
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Hahaha</p>
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A great thinker of our age…</p>
<p>Too much sarcasm in this post…;p. I still have some doubts. Does it mean my friend looks better with the 97 in ap world than my 4 in the exam? So all I can blame is not having an easy teacher?</p>