I recently came across this table. It is a table generated by a secondary school that the school sends to all colleges and universities to which the school's students apply. These are the cumulative GPAs for the Class of 2012 at this school. This is an actual thing, that is, I did not make this up.Why would a secondary school do this? Does this advantage students? What might a college admissions officer make of this?
What about the students? This is accessible on the school's web site (that's where I got it). If I'm a 12th grader at this school, then I'm in that list somewhere. What does that make me think? Is school a competition? Is this the scoreboard? Am I a winner? A loser?
I have no idea if other schools do this, but my guess would be that they do.
What do you think?
