<p>My high school offers very limited courses and grants very addition credit for taking rigorous courses. In college application, do colleges take into consideration that your school offered few Advanced Placement courses or just actually care what courses you take and disregard one's limitations? In addition, my school does not add points to weighted GPA for Honors and only add 0.5 points to an AP class, as opposed to the normal full point. So, do any of this things matter?</p>
<p>Colleges do consider the available courses. If your school has few AP courses being offered, then colleges will know that you didn’t have a chance to take more. They won’t put it against you because you weren’t able to take as many APs as someone from a different school (that had many APs available). As for weighted GPA, your counselor will tell the colleges how the GPA is calculated.</p>
<p>…but will they bother to read that the GPA was calculated differently…</p>
<p>Yes they will.</p>