{"id":789,"date":"2010-11-02T00:36:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=789"},"modified":"2010-11-02T00:36:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T04:36:03","slug":"the-longest-answer-to-the-simplest-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/11\/02\/the-longest-answer-to-the-simplest-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Answer to the Simplest Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/LynnVerrecchia.BLOG2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-424\" title=\"LynnVerrecchia.BLOG2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/LynnVerrecchia.BLOG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> I cannot tell you how many questions I\u2019ve been asked today.    This time of year, admission counselors spend the better part of their day fielding questions from students, parents and counselors. \u00a0\u00a0Some require simple answers (yes, we have an English major), while others require a more in-depth response (<a href=\"http:\/\/admissions.holycross.edu\/learning\/montserrat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montserrat<\/a> is\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>On occasion, a student will ask a seemingly simple question, and may be surprised by a response that is lengthier than expected.  Never is this more true than in the case of the old favorite\u2014the \u201caverage GPA\u201d question.  Students rightly want to know if their academic performance will measure up in our pool, and frankly we\u2019re glad you asked.  But that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re able to give you the simple answer you were hoping for.  We consider each student within the unique context of their high school, making it impossible to identify a number which we think represents a universally \u201cgood\u201d GPA.  The grading scale (3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0, 12.0, to name a few we\u2019ve seen), weighting (or lack thereof), strength of curriculum, grade inflation\/deflation and other factors unique to your high school are all considered.    We study high school profiles and websites, and sometimes make phone calls to counselors to gather all of the information we need to assess your academic performance.   It\u2019s our job to understand what a \u201cgood\u201d GPA is at your school.  And this time of year, it\u2019s our job to try to explain that to you.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat flustered by my response, students sometimes follow-up with a question they are sure will elicit a short, numbers-only answer:  \u201cWhat\u2019s your average SAT score?\u201d  And I take a deep breath, and we\u2019re off again\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Verrecchia<\/p>\n<p>Associate Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot tell you how many questions I\u2019ve been asked today. This time of year, admission counselors spend the better part of their day fielding questions from students, parents and counselors. \u00a0\u00a0Some require simple answers (yes, we have an English major), while others require a more in-depth response (Montserrat is\u2026). On occasion, a student will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/11\/02\/the-longest-answer-to-the-simplest-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Longest Answer to the Simplest Question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[47,71,146],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff","category-lynn-verrecchia","tag-application","tag-college-search","tag-montserrat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}