<p>My kids’ high school calculates GPA by awarding bonus points to the average for honors and AP classes. This prevents the problem noted above where a student is penalized for an additional elective. So, for every honors class, the total GPA is bumped up 0.05 and AP class 0.1. An issue arises in that the maximum bonus is 0.8, so by senior year the most ambitious students are not rewarded for their full courseload of APs. But hey, by then their college applications are done. Anyway, this makes for a lot of 4.8 GPAs. They usually have 15-20 valedictorians out of 750 or so seniors. I think it’s ridiculous. IMO, the first tie breaker should be the most APs, then the most honors classes, then the most credits.</p>