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<p>How many all "A" students (4.0 unweight?) are there each year? Do you expect one for each high school? More or less?</p>
<p>I went to a recent Senior Awards ceremony where there were 22 kids who had all As throughout their high school career, out of a senior class of 230!</p>
<p>But an ‘A’ doesn’t always equal an ‘A’. Getting an ‘A’ in an easy course from an easy teacher is different than getting an ‘A’ in AP Physics or AP Chemistry from a tough teacher. Grades have to be considered in context.</p>
<p>Our HS had 12 vals with 4.0s. But as UCSD_UCLA stated, all 4.0s are not the same. DD2 was the #1 student due to weighting.</p>
<p>HS where I teach has a graduating class of about 500 and there are about 10 - 12 kids each year who have a 4.0. Those are all unweighted with all classes counting equally. However you do have to be enrolled in one honors or AP class each semester to be considered a Val.</p>
<p>UCLA dad – art should have counted more in my case. I could never get an A in that class LOL she was brutally tough on projects</p>
<p>I have no idea how many all A students there are. We have a 0-100 scale weighted to 110 and only weighted grades are announced though students know their unweighted average. Mathson’s unweighted average was an A (97 I think, weighted was 102 point something), but he had three years B+s in English. He was number 8 in his class, so it’s quite possible that some of the kids ahead of him had all A’s. It’s also possible that someone could have gotten all A’s and graduated behind him.</p>
<p>This year, our school had 3-4 kids with 4.0s in the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes. ZERO seniors, though!</p>
<p>MTA: Each class has around 200 students.</p>
<p>This year, my son’s graduating class has one student with straight As, weighted or not. Eight more have 4.0s weighted. A year ago, no one had a 4.0. Guess it runs in cycles.</p>
<p>Around 10 students in my high school graduating class had a weighted GPA of 4.0 or higher. Although no one had a unweighted of 4.0 – the valedictorian (me 
) had a 3.95 unweighted GPA. Class size was around 150 or so.</p>
<p>Our val/sal selection is based on weighted GPA in academic classes, as it should be.</p>
<p>S always has one high B at the end of every year. There’s always one class that kicks him but with his other grades he’s still nipping at the heels of val/sal.</p>
<p>I don’t know but I always thought there seemed to be lots of straight A kids. My son is one of them…all honors courses and 12 or more AP classes with all 5s so far. He isn’t unique. There are quite a few equally successful kids, in fact, I think he is third in his graduating class even with those scores. One kid higher than him did take much easier courses but the other didn’t. </p>
<p>I always thought there seemed to be TONS of freakily smart, successful and accomplished kids out there from my son’s experiences and reading here on CC.</p>
<p>^ I agree. My brother, by graduation, had 14 APs, 5s on all except a 4, all As, ECs, etc. He was ranked 9th I think when he graduated, with weighted GPA. I’d say a LOT of kids were like him (although there were about 1000 kids in his class).
Since everyone on CC always talks about all the geniuses here, I guess I thought most people would have a 4.0 (don’t really check out the chances threads). A lot of my friends fret about getting anything under a 97 or 93 (that’s where weighted GPA lowers, so it’s not like all As are born equal) and would throw a fit if they got a B.
[I am aware they/we are not the norm, now, and I’m only a sophomore- I suspect they will have to deal with lower grades in junior year. :P]</p>
<p>At our school, out of 447, i would venture that approximately 100 get all “A’s” however, the use of As are very different</p>
<p>I took all honors with 8 AP classes and got all A’s and have a 4.0 without weight
Another kid can take all remedial, get all A’s and have a 4.0
luckily our rankings go by weight (yay for being 3rd)</p>
<p>Many schools don’t do the 4.0 scale. When you have 0-110 (for AP) to work with, way too many kids get into the “a” range. There are schools where you can have a 96 average and not be in the top 10%. So many permutations to figure out if a “4.0” means anything</p>
<p>At my son’s HS, there was a graduating class of about 400. They honor the top ten weighted GPA and the top ten unweighted (not already included in the first category). In his year there were 11 top unweighted because they all had 4.0s. The top ten weighted may have included some Bs depending on the other courses they took. My son had a 4.0 and the IB diploma, but was between 25-30 in his class because of non-weighted classes he was required to take or wanted to take. I don’t think there were too many 4.0s in remedial classes in his school (sort of non sequitor).</p>
<p>I think our school has a lot of kids with unweighted 4.0s, but class rank is based on weighted GPA so its hard to tell for sure. I know we have about 75 seniors (out of a class of about 600) with weighted GPAs of more than 4.0 (the school posts a sort of wall of fame with pictures of the academic superstars with GPAs higher than 4.0 at the end of their junior year). However, we have a lot of APs and no gatekeeping (other than prerequisites), so lots of kids take lots of APs. </p>
<p>I know at the end of freshman year, based on 1 B and the rest As, my son’s class rank was about 145. Very few freshman take APs, so my guess is between 120-130 freshman got straight A’s. Freshman classes are the easiest, so I am sure that number goes down significantly every year…</p>
<p>S1’s HS had a graduating class of about 405 with 44 UW 4.0s. The HS does not weight grades, many of those students took tough honors and AP courses.</p>
<p>I often got an “A” in primary school,but I seldom got it in the middle school.However,I get
it back now in this big university.Is that strange?</p>
<p>D had one B+ (AP history), but with 4.1 unweighted GPA, taking all honors and APs at her school. Her school didn’t rank, she wasn’t the Val, so there must be other kids with higher GPAs than her.</p>