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There are a lot of issues with this argument which any administrator should immediately see the issue with. GPA: Schools weigh GPA differently. One thing I saw

There are a lot of issues with this argument which any administrator should immediately see the issue with. GPA: Schools weigh GPA differently. One thing I saw was that some schools with honors / AP you can get above a 4.0 to the point of a 5/4. Also GPA can be messed up when someone has a bad home life, or works a job. honors/ap/ib: These are often related to which school you go to. Poor schools have few to no AP classes available. My school had 2 AP courses available, 0 IB. I was shocked when I went to college and talked to people that had 10 or 20 AP classes. Sure anyone can just take the AP exam, but I didn't know that at the time. Extracurriculars: Bad and poor schools have fewer extracurriculars. When you compare good schools (which are in wealthier more exclusive neighborhoods) with bad schools, not even accounting for private schools, its absolutely astounding the differences.

mmcconnell1618 4y ago
College admissions teams don't accept the GPA from each school as-is. Instead, they look at the difficulty of each course, the school and their knowledge of the students from that school in past years. They actually use their own formulas and recalculate an internal GPA that is specific to that college admissions team. For example, they may only consider core classes and ignore electives. They may or may not count AP courses as part of their formula. In the end, each college makes their own rules about what criteria they will use to compare students.
- mlyle 4y ago
  Yes, but selective colleges have relatively little experience with each school's grading distributions and are not permitted to systematically share data with each other because of antitrust/collusion concerns.