<p>The system you guys use is still way better than unweighted class rank at a school full of people who take all the easy classes and get 100's. The kid who get's A's in all his AP classes gets screwed cause people taking easy classes all get A+'s. ***?</p>
<p>This is also why you have a school profile so that colleges see what courses your school offered and the requirements needed to take those corses.</p>
<p>The University of California has a way of adjusting. </p>
<p>1) Honors courses curricula must be approved by a UC oversight committee. At present, the two only Honors Courses at our suburban High School that get an extra gpa point are Honors Chemistry, and Honors Physics.</p>
<p>2) The UC admissions recomputes GPA into a "UC GPA". 9th grade is not counted at all. For 10th and 11th grade, they cap the +1 bonus points to 8 semester grades. In some ways this protects kids targeting the UC schools like Berkeley and UCLA from over-enrolling in AP classes strictly for the purpose of looking good on college applications.</p>
<p>Anyway, most all Top 100 colleges recalculate GPA in their own way, so the way the school does it is not that relevant.</p>
<p>I don't have much of problem with our grading scale. 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for As in regular, honors and AP courses respectively. .5s for +s although no A+. No study hall or classes exempt from GPA calculations. Many people take APs and about 15 or so take 5 or 6 APs out of 7 total periods. I'm personally taking 6. My one honors class (Anatomy) just had the teacher leave and stick us with substitutes because they can't find a replacement. I took German as a foreign language and it was a total joke. Four levels of German were combined in one class and nothing ever got done. People take a lot of APs not necessarily to score whore but because honor classes are too easy. Why waste your time when you could take an AP, learn more, possibly get college credit, prepare yourself of college courses even if you don't and get a GPA boost?</p>