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Like Bernard Cleyet, I have not been following this thread real closely,but
he said something that struck a raw nerve in me when he mentionedadmission
rates.student
At Bluffton College we believe the ACT or SAT score is one of the best
predictors of how a student will fair in college. The HS GPA is almost
worthless, especially for comparing a student from one school with a
from another school. However, a predictor that is based upon the GPA, butwillingness
used to work, is the HS rank. The "top students" at one school were often
comparable to the top students at another school, even if their GPAs were
not the same. Perhaps more important, the rank often indicated
to work and also some measure of competitiveness. Therefore, students whowell.
aimed for the top in high school often aimed for the top in college as
So the ACT/SAT score along with the class rank used to be a real goodstudents.
predictor.
Notice the previous paragraph was written in past tense. Today grade
inflation has gotten so bad in high school there are too many 4.00
This means the class rank doesn't work any more as an indicator. Supposewith
there are 200 students in the graduating class and 25 of them graduate
perfect 4.00. That means a student with a 3.99 GPA can rank no higherthan
26/200 or about 87%. That means this 3.99 GPA student didn't evengraduate
in the top 10% of her class.