ChooseFI · Monday, November 2, 2026
Brian Eufinger explains that epic levels of grade inflation have made unweighted GPAs extremely competitive, citing UCLA's bottom 25% having a 3.95 unweighted GPA. He emphasizes that high school GPA now matters longitudinally from the very first day of ninth grade and that course rigor, such as AP classes, has dramatically increased.
“the bottom 25% of UCLA... had a 3.95 unweighted, not weighted, unweighted,”
“your GPA starts longitudinally from the first day of ninth grade. And so grade inflation has continued to surge even more so.”