<p>Well, not so much grievances, just some clarifications from a frustrated grade-grubber. I'm always awed at the huge number of 4.0's on this site, and I would be very interested to know everyone's schools' grading schemes. At my school:
A=95-100
A-=93-94
B+=91-92
B=87-90
B-=85-86
C+=83-84
C=79-82
C-=77-78 etc.</p>
<p>Anyways, I always thought this was the norm, but I've heard a few rumors here and there about some schools with a 10 point system, i.e. A-/+=90-100 etc. Is this true? My class is relatively small (about 150-160 kids),but we barely have a single 4.0 student, if any, by the time senior year draws to a close, and the school is situated in a fairly affluent area, so it's not as if the resources or funding are sub-par. Anyways, just something I'd like to know.</p>
<p>p.s. Do I attend the only school that restricts AP's to Sophomores and Freshman?</p>
<p>at our school you are only allowed to take aps junior and senior year (only 2 junior year and u can take 6 senior year if u can work it into ur schedule which is doubtful).</p>
<p>we dont really have 4.0's either but our school is really hard. i guess every school is just different</p>
<p>Well that makes me feel a bit better, there are really only 2 AP's generally available to juniors at my school, sometimes someone will manage to fit in a third due to some prior teaching, like AP French or Spanish, and generally the most anyone can fit into their senior year is 3, or if you're feeling suicidal 4. (We have a 4 block, bi-semester scheme, and all the AP's have to be second semester due to the May test, so having all AP classes for an entire semester is very difficult)</p>
<p>It's funny how our school's system is like the antithesis of your school's. Grading policies often depend on the individual teacher, but for the most part grades look like this:</p>
<p>When it comes to APs, no one takes APs freshman year except the insanely smart kids. They limit sophomores to 4 APs, and juniors and seniors can take up to 6 APs per year (on a 6 period schedule). Maybe it's just among the people I know, but there are like a stupefying number of kids taking 5 or 6 APs one or both years. I took 4 junior year, worked really hard, and then took 2 senior year to lessen my workload.</p>
<p>Also, I think schools take GPA in the context of class rank, if you're school does it. So colleges won't be like:</p>
<p>AdCom1: "This kid only has a 3.9, let's throw his application out."
AdCom2: "Yeah, we've got a whole pile of 4.5s over here."</p>
<p>Since class rank compares your GPA to other students at the same school, they will be aware of the harsher grading system if you're valedictorian with a 3.95 or something.</p>
<p>also, only juniors and seniors can take AP classes (and juniors can take up to two-one can only take the second AP course if one was placed on the advanced math track in middle school). for seniors, there is a less restrictive limit on the # of APs a student can take (my school sucks)...</p>
<p>We can take APs as sophomores, juniors, or seniors. If you're a very persuasive freshman you might be able to finagle your way into one, but nobody does.</p>
<p>Freshmen can take AP World History (as opposed to the usual gifted people placement into Honors World History), the AP that Sophs usually go for is AP Chem (again opposed to taking Honors Chem). The world is wide open to juniors and seniors for APs.</p>
<p>We have the normal A 90-100, B 80-90, etc, but we grade in numbers 1-100, not letters. Our difference is that the passing grade here is 75, not 65. And we don't have any APs at all, so quit whining unless you too go to the possibly only upper-middle-class NYS school sans APs.</p>
<p>My school is the rather typical 10 point system. An A, A-, and A+ are all given the same exact weight of 4.0.
My school has no restrictions on the number of AP's that can be taken nor when they can be taken. typically though, no one takes AP freshman or sophomore years simply because most students wont have the prerequisite classes done unless they went out of the way to take them at the local college or something. Junior and senior year though, the overachieving students at my school take a total of about 10 AP courses.</p>
<p>An A- is given the same weight as an A?!?! Arrggg... this is what makes me so frustrated, if we had the 10 point system, or even if A-'s were weighted the same as A's,(A-'s are worth 3.7, A's are worth 4.0), we would have like 10 4.0's, including me. I really, really hope colleges take this, and the AP scheduling thing into account.</p>
<p>I think the grading system will be evident in your school profile, so I wouldn't worry about that...About "AP scheduling thing": We have the same restriction here PLUS the pre-reqs required for each AP preclude 99.9% of students from taking many of the AP's offered before senior year....The problem here is that this is not explained on our school profile that goes to colleges...You may want to check that out if you are a soph,junior......</p>
<p>At my school there are no +'s or -'s, So
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79C
65-69 D
0-64 F</p>
<p>We are restricted on AP's to one sophomore year (AP world, a few people have taken AP Stats, but only if they are in precalc as a sophomore too)</p>
<p>For junior and senior years you are restricted to 2 AP's unless you get permission from your counselor to take 3. To take 4 (no one does this) you need to get permission from all of the teachers who will be teaching the AP classes you want to take.
It's a small school (250 in my class, which is the biggest in my school) so there are a lot of scheduling conflicts and many advanced classes are only offered once in the day, s it is hard to get many of these to fit in your schedule</p>