Originally Posted by Bostonian
I think it's a problem when high school grades reflect a mix of academic and behavioral criteria that someone looking at a transcript cannot disentangle. I think they should be rated separately.

I agree, but tangling stuff up is the whole point. Schools can give extra points for certain attributes, which raises grades, and therefore helps everyone go to college. Okay, many of students end up taking remedial classes and dig themselves deep into a debt whole, but who cares? They are in college, and that was the goal.