D) Some call the phenomenon that Zalaskys fighting grade inflationimplying the boost is undeserved. Others say students are truly earning their better marks. Regardless, its a trend thats been building for years and may only be accelerating: many students are getting very good grades. So many, in fact, it is getting harder and harder for colleges to use grades as a measuring stick for applicants.
E) Extra credit for AP courses, parental lobbying and genuine hard work by the most competitive students have combined to shatter any semblance of a Bell curve, one in which A,s are reserved only for the very best. For example, of the 47,317 applications the University of California, Los Angeles, received for this falls freshman class, nearly 23,000 had GPAs of 4.0 or above.
F) Thats also making it harder for the most selective collegeswho often call grades the single most important factor in admissionsto join in a growing movement to lessen the influence of standardized tests.
G) We,re seeing 30, 40 valedictorians at a high school because they don,t want to create these distinctions between students, said Jess Lord, dean of admission and financial aid at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. If we dont have enough information, theres a chance well become more heavily reliant on test scores, and thats a real negative to me.
H) Standardized tests have endured a heap of bad publicity lately, with the SAT raising anger about its expanded length and recent scoring problems. A number of schools have stopped requiring test scores, to much fanfare.
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