CHICAGO (AP) — For many high school students, deciding on a college comes down to one or two schools.
For Arianna Alexander of Chicago, it came down to 26 — including pretty much the whole Ivy League.
Chicago’s WLS-TV reports that the Kenwood Academy’s valedictorian has picked the University of Pennsylvania after the kind of collegiate competition that’s typically reserved for students who excel at shooting basketballs or throwing footballs.
But schools offered a total of more than $3 million in scholarships to Alexander because of her academic record. Her grade point average is 5.1 — or 1.1 points higher than she would have achieved had she merely achieved straight A’s.
Alexander says she wants to be an entrepreneur and open four restaurants after graduating from Penn’s Wharton School of Business.
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Strangely worded headline. I clicked just to clarify whether she got into 26 colleges or the same college 26 times (which would have been ever more remarkable).
“Her grade point average is 5.1 — or 1.1 points higher than she would have achieved had she merely achieved straight A’s.”
Ummmm…no. It depends on the scale the school uses. I went to a private school freshman year of high school (left after that because all boys catholic high school was horrifying) that used a 4.5 GPA scale. 4.1 did not mean it was higher than if I got straight A’s. You can’t get higher than straight A’s. If you want to say that hers is over 25% higher than if she got straight A’s, you’re gonna have to a little more journalism than just making assumptions, because that sentence just makes zero sense unless you provide some context that fixes it making zero sense.
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Maybe there was a new letter higher than an A that was discovered since you and I were in high school?
I can tell you who didn’t get accepted at 26 colleges, your headline writer.