GODAMN A girl got in with a 3.4 to harvard(early) from my school.

[jspeicher]

maybe she had a good entrance essay and interview...maybe she has big dollars, has family alumni, connections....there are so many ways to get into school.

 

[cchen]

Is she hot? I remember Harvard asks for a face picture in the application.

 

[dexvx]

How about instead of inflating the number of 3's and 4's you make 1's and 2's actually useful?

The best system I've seen is have the average be 2.5 and each standard deviation worth 0.8 pts. Average score is 90% with 5% SD and you score a 91%? Thats a 2.6-2.7 bud.

 

[flashbacck]

Originally posted by: dexvx
How about instead of inflating the number of 3's and 4's you make 1's and 2's actually useful?

yeah, these days teachers and administrators seem forget that a "C" is suppose to be AVERAGE.

 

[DaWhim]

what's the color of her skin? I wouldn't be so surprised if she is black or latino.

back in my hs, this black girl with very medicore got into columbia. her background? her dad is in jail and her mom is a hooker.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

well the hs i went to does weigh high achievement and gifted classes....but no so much that you get more than a 4.2

 

[totalcommand]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
what's the color of her skin? I wouldn't be so surprised if she is black or latino.

back in my hs, this black girl with very medicore got into columbia. her background? her dad is in jail and her mom is a hooker.

good for her.

this person in the OP IMO deserves to get in no matter what her background.

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
what's the color of her skin? I wouldn't be so surprised if she is black or latino.

back in my hs, this black girl with very medicore got into columbia. her background? her dad is in jail and her mom is a hooker.

That comment is a bit racist....

 

[Ninjja]

Originally posted by: totalcommand

Originally posted by: DaWhim
what's the color of her skin? I wouldn't be so surprised if she is black or latino.

back in my hs, this black girl with very medicore got into columbia. her background? her dad is in jail and her mom is a hooker.

good for her.

this person in the OP IMO deserves to get in no matter what her background.

second that. Giving chances to people means that the next generation will likely have less fathers in jail and less hookers as mothers.

 

[RKS]

Apparently she spent her time wisely on activities that let her stand-out. I guess Harvard doesn't care about your ATOT post count.

 

[saahmed]

I heard schools in Texas have GPA's out of like 8 or something so their GPA's on college app's look really inflated.

I wish I could have gotten into one of those schools. I got a 1520 on SAT and 33 on ACT but my GPA was only 3.7 for not doing pointless homework.

 

[mugs]

Rankings of high schools don't mean jack. They rank based on the number of AP tests taken per student. Meaningless.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

This is why I need to get a life.

<-- Top of class, but practically no extracurriculars....

 

[enyce2k9]

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: DaWhim
what's the color of her skin? I wouldn't be so surprised if she is black or latino.

back in my hs, this black girl with very medicore got into columbia. her background? her dad is in jail and her mom is a hooker.

That comment is a bit racist....

lol interesting comments DaWhim

 

[IAteYourMother]

She is possibly part black/native american, which would greatly help her chances. Regardless of whether she has good extracurriculars, there are thousands of the best of the best who apply who also have amazing extracurriculars and straight As.

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: saahmed
I heard schools in Texas have GPA's out of like 8 or something so their GPA's on college app's look really inflated.

I wish I could have gotten into one of those schools. I got a 1520 on SAT and 33 on ACT but my GPA was only 3.7 for not doing pointless homework.

That's because people from texas are borderline mentally retarded.

 

[SpanishFry]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: saahmed
I heard schools in Texas have GPA's out of like 8 or something so their GPA's on college app's look really inflated.

I wish I could have gotten into one of those schools. I got a 1520 on SAT and 33 on ACT but my GPA was only 3.7 for not doing pointless homework.

That's because people from texas are borderline mentally retarded.

:disgust:

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: saahmed
I heard schools in Texas have GPA's out of like 8 or something so their GPA's on college app's look really inflated.

I wish I could have gotten into one of those schools. I got a 1520 on SAT and 33 on ACT but my GPA was only 3.7 for not doing pointless homework.

That's because people from texas are borderline mentally retarded.

:roll:

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: kranky
Don't the guidance counselors explain to students that admission to any college is not simply a matter of grades? And that lots of other factors enter into it?

Apparently not.

 

[bleeb]

What matters is if she is hot or not.

 

[Hacp]

I promise you she's not asian. Or white.

 

[AbAbber2k]

The high school education system is bad enough as it is without people fvcking with the standard GPA system. It's good that colleges weigh the value of extracurriculars though, there's more to education than doing some crappy homework that gives you the answers in the back of your textbook.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: saahmed
I heard schools in Texas have GPA's out of like 8 or something so their GPA's on college app's look really inflated.

I wish I could have gotten into one of those schools. I got a 1520 on SAT and 33 on ACT but my GPA was only 3.7 for not doing pointless homework.

That's because I am borderline mentally retarded.

Good for you :thumbsup:

And most colleges will ask for your GPA on a 4.0 scale

 

[waggy]

Personally i think a 3.5 with all the extra stuff is darn good.

 

[Giscardo]

In my high school you only got the +1 added to the points for your grade (i.e. A = 5.0, B = 4.0, etc) if the class was honors or an AP class. I think most of California is like this. Most of the public schools in Cali are sh!tty as hell. If you look at it this way, it lets students who take AP and honors courses look better than those who took "normal" classes. Sure you could give more people worse grades so that A's actually mean something, but then you'd have to fail a lot more kids. We already had about a 50% graduation rate at my high school though... (graduating class is always half the size as the frosh class from four years beeforeo)

EDIT: 3.5 weighted is pretty craptastic, I thought it was 3.5 un-weighted when I first read the post, then I could understand the extra-curriculars and essay getting her in. But 3.5 weighted could easily mean a worse than B average.