Jerome Cole: My name is Jerome Cole. I am the Director of College Counseling at the Edmund Burke School in Washington D.C. I am also the founder of the Cole Educational Consultant Services. I have a Masters degree in Education in Human Development, with a specialty in Secondary School Counseling from the George Washington University.
For the past seven years, I have worked in both public and private schools settings, helping students and families, strategize for college. Today, I am going to talk about some of the strategies, some of the steps that you and your student should take to determine how you go about selecting a college and then ultimately, how you go about being admitted to a college.
Host: Do students who attend high schools that have weighted GPAs have an advantage over those who do not?
Jerome Cole: The answer to that one is simple, it is no. There is no advantage to attending a school that has a weighted Great Point Average system as opposed to an unweighted Great Point Average system. If you look at the different school districts and the different private institutions out there, there are all kinds of different grading scales out there and what colleges do, is when they get the transcripts, they will focus on the course work first, but then they will look at the individual grades and based on those individual grades, sort of, come up with their own conclusions as to how well a student perform.
The grade point averages, it is part of the process, but it is not as important as what most people think it is. It s really the individual grades, especially in the course subjects.
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