It's pretty simple: use both GPAs and standardized scores. To prevent rampant grade inflation, normalize each school's GPA (and for ones where the top-end indic

It's pretty simple: use both GPAs and standardized scores. To prevent rampant grade inflation, normalize each school's GPA (and for ones where the top-end indicates significantly less rigorous coursework than other schools', use the standardized tests to fill in the gaps). That'll outperform both GPA alone and SATs alone.