<p>wondering about all of your schools… maybe not so competitive. maybe you’re wonderful students. not sure. however… i think that CC is a good place to brag about grades. you have a bunch of people who care a lot about their academics on this site. most friends probably do not want to see your grade summaries. i know my parents don’t like to hear it, either. lol </p>
<p>LOL. My best friend and I have little trouble with grades (thus far in our lives) so we talk about how intelligent we are compared to others our age (we call them ignoramuses). Such shallow ones we are. Anyways, I wouldn’t say my school is competitive…though I would say I work really hard in my classes, though I have the natural gift of having academics come easy to me and the label of “Academically Gifted” to make me fearful of failure. There are many that fail the classes I did well in without having to study very much.</p>
<p>The only reason I had a 101 in Spanish 1 was because… well, I don’t know about you guys, but the first class of a foreign language tends to be ridiculously easy at my school. On nearly every quiz and test, my teacher (and the whole Spanish department) offered 5 extra credit points, and the first class was pure memorization. I’m pretty good at English and my teacher didn’t even know what macabre meant, so it’s easy to say she did not teach a very rigorous class.</p>
<p>Next year will probably be more challenging for me, though it doesn’t exactly appear that way if you just glance at my schedule (no APs), but I think with all honors core classes, Spanish 3 Honors, Newspaper 1 (yearly—which I’m really excited about, though I know there is a fair amount of actual work involved and deadlines, oh dear deadlines) and then Creative Writing 1, which in theory would be easy and fun for an aspiring author, though I’ve heard past students say otherwise because of the teacher and homework requirements, I’ll have my hands full. I chose it because my counselor said they would be getting a new teacher, so here’s hoping.</p>
<p>Oh gosh. Now I’m excited about next year! Anyways, I think most high grades are earned; unfortunately, there are exceptions to this when schools differ greatly in rigor…but I’m pretty sure colleges take note of that. But hey, last/this year’s valedictorian got a full ride scholarship to Columbia so my school can’t be all bad.</p>
<p>Personally had my worst year academically this year…still managed to get a 90 average tho, so there’s that. To be honest, it was 100% my fault, which makes it worse. Anyways, junior year here I COME!</p>
<p>Oh my god @MissSuzyQ that was painful to read… please calm down relax and go outside more</p>
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Since when does Columbia (University) give merit aid?</p>
<p>Sorry. I was hyper in the middle of the night… Not really sure how I caused you pain?</p>
<p>& I don’t know much about Columbia; I just know he received a full scholarship.</p>
<p>Class ranks just came out for us and I’m pretty satisfied! I go to an average public school however, in my grade, the top 50 kids all have a 4.0. This year, I ended up with 3 99’s and 4 100s unweighted (I was taking two APs and 4 Pre-aps/honors plus a sport) as a sophomore. All I know is that my goal is to be valedictorian and I just hope that during junior year my grades can prevail, and I can raise/keep my grades where they are at right now while LEARNING new things and ABSORBING information, and also while balancing sat studying and ECs. Good luck to everyone with the rest of their high school and college careers, and let’s have a safe and fun summer!!</p>
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Clearly you don’t much about Columbia; there are no full scholarships. Whether the person got a free ride via FA is another question.</p>
<p>All A’s all year.</p>
<p>Sorry I don’t spend time researching Ivy League colleges that I have no interest in attending? Clearly my ignorance angers you unnecessarily.</p>
<p>Most of y’all are lucky! A 90 is still an A.
For where I live, an A is a 93-100 and a B is an 85-92. </p>
<p>Alg 2: ok
AP Gov: gg no re
Bio H: bad
Chinese 2H: bad
Engineering: shoot myself
Lit H: ok</p>
<p>The hell are weighted grades
How can you have over a hundred percent in an AP class “weighted”</p>
<p>@lovelyshores It’s to award higher rank to people who take more challenging courses. Think about it; say someone takes regular bio, and another person takes honors/ap bio. Both people get the same grade in the class. Well, the ap bio kid obviously challenged himself as opposed to the regular bio kid, so that’s why he should be awarded an extra 7 points. Otherwise they’d have the same GPA, and that regular honors bio kid could become valedictorian by taking all the easy classes.</p>
<p>Yeah, weighted GPA is only for class rank within an individual school. Outside of that context it doesn’t mean anything, because all high schools weight grades differently.</p>
<p>Junior Year
AP Human Geography -94
AP Environmental-94
AP Lang-95
Spanish 3 Honors- 96
AP Gov- 94
Sociology Dual Enrollment- 100
Microeconomics Dual Enrollment- 96
Pre Calc Honors- 89 (Screw this) :O</p>
<p>I’m on my moms account so if her friends see this I’m not her. </p>
<p>Moderato’s note: Using another person’s account is not allowed.</p>
<p>@Yakisoba & @halcyonheather
My school is different then. If it’s an honors or AP class then it’s just a point extra towards your GPA. Like a B in a regular class would be a 3, but if it’s honors/AP then it counts as a four.
We have weighted GPAs but not weighted grades. </p>