<p>I read on the website that admission to the honors program is based upon an unweighted GPA. Does that include just the five core subjects and exclude electives? What about academic electives (like AP Art History or AP psych)? Same for general admision? Any info would be appreciated!</p>
<p>It is based on everything, not just your core classes. It is unweighted, meaning the 4.0, not 5.0 scale. The AP's the Honor's the IVY, and any other advanced course is always taken into consideration. It is also based on a good SAT score, I believe 1330 was the score, or was it 1400, no idea, but that information should be on the site also. I hope that helps you out, anymore questions I would be glad to help you out, or you can wait for Chris, he can probably give you a better answer.</p>
<p>Have a good night,</p>
<p>~Zuljian</p>
<p>Thanks very much. I confuse easily! Daughter is an IB diploma candidate and also taking a bunch of APs. I always thought that unweighted meant that those things weren't taken into consideration. But you live and learn, right? I do not know how I'm going to get through this!</p>
<p>Technically, we look at the five core subjects, both for general admission and for honors consideration, but we do look at the entire transcript -- especially other AP options. We generally don't recalculate unless something looks funny.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
<p>Chris, I'm sorry to be an idiot. When you say recalculate, what does that mean? My daughter's transcript is set up in such a way that she has grades in her classes that she earned. Then the school takes the average of those grades and adds something to it, so the average is weighted, but the actual grades are not. I don't know if that makes any sense because I'm clearly confused. Is that what you do? Pull out the core classes and then average them? If so, that makes sense and my feeble brain can comprehend.</p>
<p>What you said at the end. If we see a transcript with a bunch of Cs and Bs, but a GPA that says 3.7, or 92, or whatever, then we're probably going to recalculate the GPA to see what it really is, without whatever weird weighting scales the high school uses.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
<p>Ahhh. Thank you. Makes complete sense now.</p>
<p>Basically as long as your daughter does good in her classes, and does decent, at least, in her ap classes, she should be fine. Honors and ap's are weighted differently I'm sure. If you take all easy classes, and get a 4.0, but are against someone who has full honors and ap's with a 3.8, the 3.8 would probably win, not including extracurriculars of course.</p>