<p>Hi, me and my principal are on the verge of convincing the school board to do weighted grades. It has become a trend that students take the easiest class in order to secure the 4.0 GPA without having to take difficult classes. (No weight whatsoever for AP or Honors) What i'm asking you today is do colleges seriously consider weighted GPA as an accurate portrayal of rigor? Do they even seriously consider it? I would really like to have weighted GPA at our school because my class rank would significantly go up. Please tell me how your school does weight, as I need to present to the board what our formula would be. I was thinking this:
AP 1 Point Weight (A = 5 B = 4 C = 3)
Honors 0.5 or 0.7 Weight ( A = 4.5 B = 3.5 C = 2.5)</p>
<p>Please contribute, I know the brilliant minds on this forum can help!</p>
<p>Most colleges look at your unweighted GPA, but class rank would probably change greatly since the people who actually take advanced classes would have the added boost for taking them. My school does one point for AP classes and nothing for honors (I wish this wasn’t the case!) Good luck!</p>
<p>My school is +1 for AP and Honors, and surprisingly grades really aren’t inflated here, which hurts the students applying to college. I think the top 50% is around a 2.8, I have a 3.24 weighted and I’m top 35%. We also count pluses and minuses for example an A- is a 3.75 (4.75 in honors or AP) and a B+ is a 3.25 (4.25 in honors or AP) however there is no A+. Highest GPA possible is a 4.8 with all honors and APs, we are required to take 4 year long religion classes because we are a private religious school and there are no honors there, a one semester speech class that is not honors, and a year long art class again with no honors. </p>
<p>High schools have different ways of weighing grades. So, colleges usually calculate your unweighted GPA and look at your course load as well. This way, they can accurately see how well you’re doing.</p>
<p>@zacattack16 My school is the same as yours, except our AP only +0.2. We have religion classes etc etc. Religion classes prevent us from taking on an extra class, but I’m pretty sure colleges calculate your GPA from the academic classes, regardless of your school’s weighing system. Academic classes also exclude religious classes that are one sided. So a “Insight into Religions” class is academic but “Christianity” class is not. </p>
<p>Colleges like to see a challenging curriculum, and will compare you to others from your school. If you’re taking the more difficult classes then they should notice, and they will likewise notice the kids who took BS classes all four years too. </p>