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Given the intense pressure high school students feel to get into a “good college,” and given the intense and increasing competition for getting into those elite schools, and given the immense resources that go into that effort, it’s amazing to me that this isn’t already a big story: many or most colleges now use complicated formulas to calculate a given applicant’s grade point average, and these formulas have profound consequences for who gets in where. You may be familiar with high school-side GPA manipulation for class rank purposes, where the level of difficulty of classes is used to weight various student GPAs for the purpose of determining a valedictorian and so on. Well many colleges, and certainly elite colleges in particular, do something similar on their end. The reason for this isn’t hard to divine - you have high schools out there where the valedictorian has a 3.8, and high schools where the entire top 20 has a 4.2. To simply take the raw number from each high school would disadvantage students from the stricter-grading schools. The issue here is that a) these adjustments can be very complicated and b) private colleges appear to keep the exact machinations very close to the vest.