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> but if anyone is actually adjusting high school grades to account for these differences, they're not admitting it. I am pretty sure this was the standard lin
by cbhl 9y ago
> but if anyone is actually adjusting high school grades to account for these differences, they're not admitting it.
I am pretty sure this was the standard line for campus tours at the University of Waterloo -- that you should take high school exams at your school and not at some diploma mill, because Waterloo did adjust your entrance average based on what high school you came from, and how those students did once they got to university.
(That said, I also heard that there are so many "perfect" candidates that they're contemplating rejecting students at random in order to hit class size numbers, because scaling up requires more lecture halls and more dorms, and those things take years to build out.)
- cperciva 9y agoSorry, I should have elaborated. My understanding is that Toronto, Waterloo, and a few other top universities in Ontario have had a "black book" of this nature for a long time. I'm not aware of any universities in BC admitting to doing the same thing.
- vonmoltke 9y ago> that you should take high school exams at your school and not at some diploma mill I have never heard this term applied to a high school before. Is this a thing in Canada?
- majormajor 9y agoIt's a thing in the US too, especially in high-end athletic circles with traveling teams, etc (the flip side of the argument is that elite athletic prospects can't fit traditional high school schedules into their routines easily).