The New York Times published a piece written by the director of admission at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, offering insider tips about how admissions folks read high school transcripts. The entire article is worth a read, but here are the tips.
• Avoid being a “GPA protector.” Don’t play it safe [...]
Students and parents ask all the time about how colleges value weighted and unweighted GPAs.
The admissions office at College of the Holy Cross shared its in-house analysis form with the New York Times, allowing a peak into how carefully colleges look at your transcript.
The form can be found here. It’s interactive, and quite helpful to [...]
Today a reader wrote in to ask a question about comparing grading system between two different geometry classes in California.
You can read the question here.
Picture this. Two geometry teachers in the same school. Each uses a different grading scale. In one class, you need an average of 90% to get an A, while another requires [...]
Read full post...Why do high schools give extra weights to honors, Advanced Placement (AP), and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses?
Readers of some of my other posts related to GPA have expressed confusion. I have stated that admissions folks at selective colleges are most interested in your unweighted GPA. So these extra weightings are, in effect, stripped in order [...]