Word: gpa
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...LSAT score makes the difference with so many of our candidates to the top schools," a Harvard pre-law tutor said. "There's no doubt it's a numbers game--GPA (grade point average) and LSATs are the whole ballgame Everybody's got extracurriculars, and the 'diversity' schools mention in their catalogues are too often code words for minority applicants...
...dean of Dickinson College recently did away with the school's dean's list after close to one-third of the student body achieved the 3.5 GPA necessary to qualify...
...Stanford, the average GPA is reported to be 3.54 and rising. One reason for this might be that the school has discontinued using "D" and "F" grades entirely...
...that power is to be used. It is totally ridiculous to think that black students here are restricting black admissions, but it is not ridiculous for us to think that we can have a significant influence in reversing and improving present trends. Although we may be here with 4.0 GPA's, and 800 SAT's, GRE's LSAT's and MCAT's, we must never forget that these achievements are not responsible for black presence at Harvard. We are here because people before us fought the racist system that excluded black students from Harvard and most other institutions for hundreds...
Berman declined to release the formula Harvard uses in evaluating applicants from other colleges, but said that they scale the applicant's GPA to equate it to Harvard College grading. Berman explained that a 3.7 average at Princeton is scaled up to equal a Harvard 3.78 average, but a Princeton 3.4 GPA is scaled down to a Harvard 3.2 GPA...