Someone posted about this the other day. AACOMAS has encountered this for years now and knows to accommodate these students. So that's all good. I would not think of it as an unfair advantage as just a different way of grading. Many classes are curved so that a certain percentage of students get an A, B, C and fail the course. The end cutoff is almost irrelevant at this point. If an A was an 80% then they might give 20% of their students this grade. If an A was an 80% then they would give the same percentage an A. It really does not mean too much. Not all classes are curved of course, but the difficulty of the exam would be tailored so that a specific number of students would fall in that range. In the end it probably depends more on the difficulty of the school than the actual cuttoffs themselves. A 4.0 at one school is very different at another school. I think many adcoms can get a feel for this after doing what they do for so many years.