@popitx
I didn’t actually think about the honors route. Thanks! I am actually going to a 4 year college though, I will have to check out their honors program. Honors is basically like an AP Class in college right?
@Mastodon97 Yes and no. To me, AP classes were a lot harder than college honors classes. At my CC we just have to complete extra assignments/project/essays. (Ex, for calc we had an additional 10 homework sets, for english we had an extra 8 page research essay). There’s no extra GPA bump either. Also, we were mixed in with the regular class. If you wanted to do honors, it’s just the extra homework/essays, but universities won’t know that. But overall yes, it’s just more work and stuff, and the extra work is harder than the regular stuff being assigned.
I hope all that made sense, lol.
@popitx
So honors classes wouldn’t weigh your GPA more. I mean, is it possible to have over a 4.0 GPA if you took all honors classes and got As on all of them?
@Mastodon97 No, the highest it would be is a 4.0. However, there is a special recognition for the classes I take in honors, so whoever gets my transcript when I apply will see the courses I took for honors.
In the conventional US college system, a GPA can never be above a 4.0. Honors sections of courses are typically recognized in that one graduates with honors. I’m in my last semester at CC right now, and I’ll be finishing with around 33 honors credits. I believe only 15 are required to graduate with honors. Most of my honors sections have basically involved research projects that ultimately took the form a big research paper about a specific topic. My chemistry honors projects were completely lab based and included a full lab report. At some schools, honors sections can take the form of more rigorous versions of a course. For example, many schools have an honors math sequence that’s 4-5 semesters long. These are often distinct sections of the courses, and will contain only honors students. Honors math courses are typically far more rigorous and abstract than the standard versions of the course, and they’ll involve material that the standard course may skip over or ‘dance around’. A lot of other majors will have a similar honors sequence, but it varies a lot from school to school.