<p>Two students with one AP class and regular honors math courses vs. another with three and an accelerated honors math course...
The third student had a higher weighted GPA - the top of the class in terms of weighted, in fact.
The former two got the awards. </p>
<p>Is this fair?</p>
<p>I don’t think so… but my school does the same thing, I believe. Our weighted GPA determines our rank, but a lot of the awards go to kids with A+ grades in general or CP courses, rather than to kids with A averages in honors of AP courses. It doesn’t happen often at our school, but it does happen. So… fair? Maybe not. But does it happen? Absolutely.</p>
<p>Some schools do valedictorian like that. Not fair at all.</p>
<p>My school does that. For class of 2010, there might be like 20 valedictorian, just because their weighted gpa was over 4.0 weighted.</p>