Families continue to inquire on a daily basis just how Covid-19 will impact the admissions procedure. The replies are numerous and complicated. Nevertheless, the most important thing is it is going to get more abstract this season than previously. With no scores, admissions officers will need to rely on additional information, most of which is totally subjective. Let us have a fast look. Whoever has followed my articles on comparing GPAs across colleges , across countries, or round the planet knows that a 4.0 GPA of a pupil in a rural high school in Texas isn't the same as a 4.0 in the super-selective Stuyvesant High School in NYC that isn't the same as a 4.0 in an under-funded public school in a mostly black area of Ferguson, Missouri. While the amount is exactly the exact same, the degree of knowledge, preparation, and education is enormously different at schools at precisely the exact same area --considerably less colleges in various states. They speed students on some typ...