<p>Okay, so the dual enrollment program in Ohio is called PSEO and it lets me take courses through another college/university and earn high school and college credit for free. I am going to be in the program next year taking a schedule way above the normal in my school, but here's the problem. None of my courses except one of the high school ones gets weighted.</p>
<p>In my high school the average honors student is taking honors pre-calc as a junior and ap calc as a senior which are both weighted. I skipped pre-calc and self-studied calc as a sophomore, so i get none of that weight. I expect my class rank to drop quite a bit this year because i have simply exhausted most of my school's honors courses via self-studying or getting ahead by taking them over the summer (no weight) and it is irritating. Does anyone else have this problem?</p>
<p>Well, that is my venting session for today...</p>
<p>Yup, my school won’t weight any dual enrollment classes either because it won’t be “fair” to everyone else. Pretty frustrating when you’ve actually worked to get there. :(</p>
<p>Well, I did credit-by-exam for algebra II and precal in 9th grade, and luckily, my school weighed the grades for them and counted them toward my gpa. Next year, I took calculus ab course and passed the bc exam. It enrages me that your school won’t weigh them! Their stupid rule will cause the less achieved to have a higher gpa. Makes no sense!</p>
<p>For 11th and 12th grade, I’ll be in an early entrance program (hence I won’t have to worry about high school rank for the two years, as the college gpa stands separately.)</p>
<p>Good luck overcoming a stupid school system. Congrats for being ahead of the game, and best wishes.</p>
<p>Same thing with my school. None of my honors/ap class have ever been weighted. I’ve been told that they are but it doesn’t look like it. I’m also going to duel enroll this coming year and I doubt it’ll do anything to my GPA. It’s extremely frustrating.</p>
<p>Oh my GPA has been completely annihilated thanks to the incompetence of my administration. My freshman year I took 6 honors courses which were supposed to have a 10% weight on each, so I’d be okay with getting low As because it meant that I would still have a weighted average of 100. My sophomore year I transferred to a new school and they weighted all of those courses less than 5% or nothing at all. Yeaaaaaaaa.</p>
<p>At my school, if you take a placement test to skip a class/course, you don’t get credit to graduate and it doesn’t count towards your GPA. My friend moved from an international school and was at level 4 French, but she had to take level 3, so that she can graduate with 3 years of language (French 3, 4, and AP French). If you take the county approved online course, then you get credit and GPA.</p>
<p>I would have the highest class rank in my year if my school did do it so stupidly. </p>
<p>Precalculus: I took it my sophomore year, and it wasn’t a weighted class. Didn’t bother me all that much then, but they made it a weighted class the year after. So everyone else in my year gets weighted GPA for pre-calc, but I don’t. </p>
<p>Foreign Language: My school offers Spanish and French. French 3 and 4 are both weighted classes, but Spanish 3 is not weighted (only Spanish 4). It’s really irritating - the classes are the same level of difficulty! If one of them is weighted, the other should be as well. </p>
<p>Someone in my year had AP Art, French III, College Algebra, English 11, US History, Chemistry, and Weights last year. I had AP Calculus, AP Psychology, AP Language, Physics, Spanish III, Engineering, and US History. Mine is clearly the more rigorous schedule, but the other student has the same weighted GPA. It’s quite frustrating. </p>
<p>The Pre-Calculus and Foreign Language issues are particularly irritating. </p>
<p>My only consolation is that I will beat that student (and most of the 18 others ahead of me for class rank) when it comes to college admissions, when rigor of schedule is taken into account. Colleges are fully aware that my schedule is more difficult, and I should get into better schools.</p>