Does your high school weight gpa/rank?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Just curious about how other schools weight their gpa and class rank. Personally, it ****es me off to no end that my school refuses to weight anything.</p>

<p>I take the hardest classes available to me because I care less about the grade but more about how much I learn. However, it makes me mad that I appear to work much less than some of my peers who have 4.0s in ceramics, pe, leadership, art, and many other classes. When I am a sophomore in AP Euro, Pre-Calc, and mostly all honors classes and working very hard to get close to a 4.0 </p>

<p>Sorry, about the long rant but this issue seems very unfair to me and I am curious about other people's opinions.</p>

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<p>weighting grades sucks too, b/c it ends up being a disadvantage to take most electives, since those are usually unweighted. imo, they should just count things that are required for graduation in gpa (still weighted of course, as I agree that it stinks when ppl in lower level classes get the same grade for less work). our school was extremely messed up as far as weighting science classes goes until last year (earth science, bio, and chem had no weighted sections. they changed it, making it a disadvantage to the kids in my class and the one after who were advanced and did more than at once).</p>

<p>we "don't rank" meaning they're trying to phase out this ranking system, and tell colleges they don't rank, but they really do. I'm guessing they'll still keep percentiles though.</p>

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<p>well weighting w/ rank is stupid </p>

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<li>I can't take the few electives I like because it will literally make me fall 10-30 places, easily bumping me down 3-5%</li>
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<p>2.it's a race...who can squeeze the most AP's into their schedule</p>

<p>3.more artsy students end up in the 33%-50% because they take primarily art classes or do independant study</p>

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<p>Honors and AP weighed 1 extra point (5.0).</p>

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<p>Only AP's are weighted 1 extra point (nothing for honors, which I think it should be weighted). BTW, my school decided NOT to put the ranking on students' transcripts because of all the problems weighted GPA has.</p>

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<p>No weighted classes. It is annoying to take the more challenging classes and see the kids who take all sluff classes have a better GPA sometimes!</p>

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<p>we weight, but we only have 3 AP classes, they are given the same weight as honors classes, 5.0</p>

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<p>my school refuses to weight gpa but they do weight rank which kinda sucks b/c kids who dropped ap chem will get an A in ap chem b/c my school created a class for them and basically secured their rank in the top 10</p>

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<p>my school weighs all leveled classes in my school, but also does not consider electives and anything unweighted into your GPA, so I think it is pretty fair</p>

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<p>My school offers no honors classes; "practical" classes are offered, though... Only AP Music Theory and Studio Art are offered. There are dual credit courses with a CC that help. The problem is, college courses that are not offered by the HS (like econ, multivar calc) are not factored into GPA -- so the hardest classes we can take don't count at all, while at lots of schools they would count more. Everything else (even summer driver's ed, my only B) is counted. It really stinks.</p>

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<p>According to my guidance counselor, it is "illegal" for her to tell any college what my weighted rank is even though it's on the computer and she can tell me if I ask...odd</p>

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<p>my (dutch) university doesn't weight grades, it has a weighted gpa in the sense that all classes you take are multiplied by the bnumber of credit hours they give (usually 4 or 8) and then divide the total through the total number of hours, hence double courses have double weighing of the grades for the average.</p>

<h2>the final 'judicium" is the average of all sophomore to senior year courses counting for 1 and the grade for the final thesis statement and defense of it counts three times, final judicium decided by dividing it through 4. judicium 8 or higher (a B!!!) eans you graduate with honours. (our grading is very tough, B's are uncommon, C's are common, A's are very rare)</h2>

<p>anyway, what i meant to say:
I guess some high schools will weight according to the hours taken too?</p>

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<p>yeah, my high school weighs grades. I think it's unfair, because people will only take the classes that will boost their GPA. But, the upside to this is that atleast we'd end up with only one valedictorian.</p>

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<p>All our classes are weighted for rank, but not gpa
astrophysicist2b - as far as the electives go our school does a cool thing where you can take them not for rank and then they are only pass/fail so you don't have to worry about them affecting your rank & gpa</p>