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Originally Posted by carnation
I've got to agree with alum on these. I'd forgotten how stressful it was to be "on camera" all year. On the other hand, getting January grades would really help with choosing a pledge class....a lot of kids get great grades in high school only because their schools handed out A's like candy or forced the teachers to give extra credit for ridiculous things (getting 5 extra points added to their final average for bringing in 20 cans of food for a drive, don't get me going on that).
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Even when kids are genuinely the best and brightest in hs, college is a different playing field. At many private colleges/unis and in the Honors Colleges at the public universities, the freshman classes read like a roster of Nobel Prize winners, Olympic athletes, and Mother Theresas. For the first time in their academic careers, these students competing against classmates who are equally intelligent if not smarter. The majority of kids at certain schools scored above 700 on each section, were AP/IB Diploma recipients and saved the world in their spare time.
So in that respect, waiting for grades is not a bad thing.
A point about bias, at colleges that have a national ranking and draw their students from all over the country rather than a local region, it is more likely that the pre-judgement of the GLOs isn't going to be made before school but acquired during the 1st semester.