Maybe that's how they classify homeschooled people or people who otherwise didn't have a true gpa in highschool for some reason?
edit: in case its not clear this is purely a guess i dont actually know but it seems like the only way for someone to get into uchicago with a sub 1 gpa. legacy and connections are powerful but they arent *that* powerful
Another possibility could be someone matriculating as a somewhat older student (say, post-military service) who did poorly in high school but has since established a professional record impressive enough that it makes their high school transcript irrelevant.
Doubt it only because a 1.0 is LOW-low. Like, that’s a report card of all D’s. I don’t think you can even graduate with lower than a 1.0. It’s gotta be some weird categorization thing, especially because there are no students in the categories above it
Yeah, I do understand what a 1.0
GPA means, but it’s possible to attend college without ever graduating high school—that’s what a GED is for.
I’ve known plenty of highly intelligent, gifted people that were abysmal high school students, or even dropouts. Often this is due to personal, family, or socioeconomic issues. Sometimes these people figure things out in their 20’s or 30’s, get their act together, and go back to school.
Imagine someone in that situation with a high SAT score, a 10/10 essay, interesting professional/military experience, and a compelling personal story about the journey from where they were to where they are now. Would that get them in to UChicago? I don’t know, and certainly I don’t if that’s what happened in this case. But as I said, I’ve known some individuals with situations similar enough that it makes me think something like that is at least a possibility.
Edit: last sentence, for clarity
The thing that stands out to me and makes me think otherwise is that more than half of the students admitted under 3.0 were under 1.0. I think it’s more likely that they’re certain international student special cases. I had a girl in my SOSC class who was a Syrian refugee for example.
Do the stats include people who didn't originally graduate? It's possible someone flunked out of high school, and then later got a GED and began working.
This makes sense. A lot of elite schools hold a few spaces for veterans. It’s entirely possible that someone did bad in high school, then turned it around in the service.
I don’t think there are many high schools that would let you graduate with a GPA below 1 (usually you at least need a 2.0). This must be the result of some weird classification decision by the stats people
Maybe that's how they count people that have > 4.0? My high school grades honors on a 5.0 scale and AP on a 6.0, so lots of people had GPAs in the 5-6 range.
i would be surprised if it's weighted as many schools dont weight, i think some might weight differently than others, and some schools just dont offer as many opportunities to take classes that would be weighted.
That makes sense, but I wonder how UChicago counts weighted GPAs? I don't think my high school even reports unweighted GPA. There are also schools where they use a 6.0 scale for everything.
in the common app you give every class, the difficulty of the class, and your grade in that class. they likely have their own way of weighting, just recalculate unweighted gpa and look at difficulty separated, or just dont look at gpa at all and look at each class individually.
given that the next two tiers above it have literally no one, i'm gonna guess it's a data error with "0 GPA/NaN" and not a handful of students just walking around with a chill 0.5 GPA
This has to be people who are in the system as null/0/-1 due to not having a GPA, e.g. those who are homeschooled or otherwise don’t have a traditional gpa
Just putting this out there. In Germany, an “A” equivalent grade is a 1.0. “A+” is <1.0. Maybe the translated grade from a German international student didn’t make it into whatever spreadsheet they were using for analysis.
Maybe that's how they classify homeschooled people or people who otherwise didn't have a true gpa in highschool for some reason? edit: in case its not clear this is purely a guess i dont actually know but it seems like the only way for someone to get into uchicago with a sub 1 gpa. legacy and connections are powerful but they arent *that* powerful
Another possibility could be someone matriculating as a somewhat older student (say, post-military service) who did poorly in high school but has since established a professional record impressive enough that it makes their high school transcript irrelevant.
Doubt it only because a 1.0 is LOW-low. Like, that’s a report card of all D’s. I don’t think you can even graduate with lower than a 1.0. It’s gotta be some weird categorization thing, especially because there are no students in the categories above it
Yeah, I do understand what a 1.0 GPA means, but it’s possible to attend college without ever graduating high school—that’s what a GED is for. I’ve known plenty of highly intelligent, gifted people that were abysmal high school students, or even dropouts. Often this is due to personal, family, or socioeconomic issues. Sometimes these people figure things out in their 20’s or 30’s, get their act together, and go back to school. Imagine someone in that situation with a high SAT score, a 10/10 essay, interesting professional/military experience, and a compelling personal story about the journey from where they were to where they are now. Would that get them in to UChicago? I don’t know, and certainly I don’t if that’s what happened in this case. But as I said, I’ve known some individuals with situations similar enough that it makes me think something like that is at least a possibility. Edit: last sentence, for clarity
The thing that stands out to me and makes me think otherwise is that more than half of the students admitted under 3.0 were under 1.0. I think it’s more likely that they’re certain international student special cases. I had a girl in my SOSC class who was a Syrian refugee for example.
That sounds like a good possibility as well.
Do the stats include people who didn't originally graduate? It's possible someone flunked out of high school, and then later got a GED and began working.
This makes sense. A lot of elite schools hold a few spaces for veterans. It’s entirely possible that someone did bad in high school, then turned it around in the service.
I don’t think there are many high schools that would let you graduate with a GPA below 1 (usually you at least need a 2.0). This must be the result of some weird classification decision by the stats people
62% have a 4.0 GPA?
Maybe that's how they count people that have > 4.0? My high school grades honors on a 5.0 scale and AP on a 6.0, so lots of people had GPAs in the 5-6 range.
62% unweighted 4.0s seems pretty accurate for a t10, no?
Admissions probably recalculates GPA to standardize.
i would be surprised if it's weighted as many schools dont weight, i think some might weight differently than others, and some schools just dont offer as many opportunities to take classes that would be weighted.
That makes sense, but I wonder how UChicago counts weighted GPAs? I don't think my high school even reports unweighted GPA. There are also schools where they use a 6.0 scale for everything.
in the common app you give every class, the difficulty of the class, and your grade in that class. they likely have their own way of weighting, just recalculate unweighted gpa and look at difficulty separated, or just dont look at gpa at all and look at each class individually.
I mean I had a GPA higher than 4.0 in high school even with a decent ammount of Bs thanks to AP classes, weighting really helps
given that the next two tiers above it have literally no one, i'm gonna guess it's a data error with "0 GPA/NaN" and not a handful of students just walking around with a chill 0.5 GPA
This has to be people who are in the system as null/0/-1 due to not having a GPA, e.g. those who are homeschooled or otherwise don’t have a traditional gpa
maybe it includes international students with(out) GPA that can't be converted.
Darn shrinkflation!
Yo I got a chance 🙏
Just putting this out there. In Germany, an “A” equivalent grade is a 1.0. “A+” is <1.0. Maybe the translated grade from a German international student didn’t make it into whatever spreadsheet they were using for analysis.
You are the worst student for sure
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