<p>My high school does. Anyone else's high school weigh grades and do you like that your high school weighs/does not weigh grades?</p>
<p>Yes. My HS weights as following: Unweighted GPA + number of semester classes taken that are weighted (honors or AP)/number of semesters of high school* x 7 (the number of classes taken per semester).</p>
<p>*does not include semesters of, say, an 8th grader accelerated to honors geometry.</p>
<p>My high school has four different GPAs. It’s really confusing. I think I’m going to sit my counselor down and make her explain it all to me. haha :]</p>
<p>My school doesn’t. And i don’t know what to feel about it. It also doesn’t reveal class ranks. It also has only 4 aps.
yeah. im not exactly happy with the policies of my highschool</p>
<p>My school didn’t either, nor did it calculate class rank, as it felt these statistics were intrinsically flawed. Colleges care more about the transcript as a whole than just a single number representing GPA, since it has no meaning for comparisons outside the school from which the grades originated and doesn’t have incredible meaning inside, either. For example, given specific teachers, I could argue that Geometry is taught at a higher level than BC Calculus (and have experienced this), while a GPA would either weight them equally or benefit the BC Calculus student for taking a “harder” course. And without a weighted GPA, releasing class rank would just convince students to take easier courses to boost their rank.</p>
<p>My schools does. Honors and AP classes are weighted the same way, which is weird, but okay because we rarely have both honors and AP of a single class.</p>
<p>nope. magnet school, all honors/ap- level classes, so no weighting or class rank. or even gpa on a 4.0 scale- we go out of 100.</p>
<p>My school weights, but they do it on a 6.0 scale rather than 5.0. AA, Honors, and AP are all weighted the same for my class, but for class of 11 on AA and Honors are 5.0 while AP is 6.0.</p>
<p>My school uses a 4.0 scale and weighs grades. A+ is worth an extra 1/3, and an A in an AP is a 5.0</p>
<p>My school does not. And it still does class rank. That’s fun because people who did not get Highest Honors could be a valedictorian.</p>
<p>my high school multiplies honors/ap classes by 5 percent. it’s annoying b/c
- you do not know your unweighted GPA
- My high school says a 92 is a B and then I wonder do I convert those 92 to A’s by the college scale(90) or do I leave it …
- So the weight ends up be stupid/ semi-useless</p>
<p>Collegeboard needs to take over and unify everything. Like those stupid SATs.
haha :]</p>
<p>^ The cost of tuition would probably go up though. The takeover is happening. Run.</p>
<p>Anyway, my school weighs AP and honors (the same, at a +.5 grade point).</p>
<p>Yes. Almost all classes are. Until this year, the only unweighted classes were Art I, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Algebra II, and Conceptual Physics.</p>
<p>Same applies next year, but they have also added some cool electives like Publications, Drama, and Creative Writing… so those probably will not be weighted.</p>
<p>Everything else is weighted. If it is ‘regular’, then it is honors level and is +.5. If it is AP, then it is +1.0</p>
<p>Yes my school does weigh our GPAs. They add +.5 for an AP course and .25 for a honors course.</p>
<p>DD’s school does not rank or weight GPA, so students taking the toughest classes take it right on the teeth for merit scholarships and large college admissions.</p>
<p>Our school uses the 6 - point scale to weight courses and GPA where A = 4, B = 3 and so on. And it’s + 1 for honors and +2 for AP.</p>
<p>Well, the county does…in a VERY weird manner…as in, kids who take a lot of AP courses and have a 4.0 have like a 7.xx WGPA.</p>
<p>yepp. every ap class gets + 0.5
so an “a” in ap whatever is a 4.5</p>