To see what students can get accepted by higher ranked colleges vs standard colleges (ex. Harvard or UCLA vs EWU) "In the United States, the most important single piece of information used by universities and colleges to select applicants is the grade-point average (GPA), which is obtained by converting the grades awarded to students on their routine coursework into numbers (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1) and average them across a course, and across courses" (Wiliam, 2011)