Re:The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated
by lolinder on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:11PM
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> not all high schools have access to the elite courses that push a GPA beyond 4.0
Whether the GPA goes above a 4.0 has less to do with access to elite courses and more to do with arbitrary school policy. My high school had a wide array of honors, AP, and similar courses, and everyone was still scored on a 4.0 scale regardless of class difficulty.
If "top schools" were actually following such a rigid policy, they wouldn't just be turning away unprivileged students, they'd be arbitrarily turning away huge numbers of students whose coursework is indistinguishable from the people they accept. What would motivate them to do that?
Whether the GPA goes above a 4.0 has less to do with access to elite courses and more to do with arbitrary school policy. My high school had a wide array of honors, AP, and similar courses, and everyone was still scored on a 4.0 scale regardless of class difficulty.
If "top schools" were actually following such a rigid policy, they wouldn't just be turning away unprivileged students, they'd be arbitrarily turning away huge numbers of students whose coursework is indistinguishable from the people they accept. What would motivate them to do that?