<ol>
<li>No. "Lifetime Wellness" is required as is Art I (either that or AP Music Theory with an incompetent "instructor") but they hurt GPAs more than they help.</li>
<li>No, I should have (French III was a waste of a year) which would have helped me keep pace for valedictorian, but I deferred. </li>
<li>No. Once I got a 92.3 from a teacher that was about to be fired and hated me, but I refused to ask for the time of day from that person. </li>
<li>No again. We have to earn our grades.</li>
</ol>
<p>Our school weights GPA in a way unlike any other I've heard of though. Honors classes have 5 points for an A and AP get 6 for an A. Thus we have 120 people over a 4.0 at our school and everyone in the top 20 has 5.0 at least. So it looks inflated, but it makes for tougher competition at school with everyone taking 8+ APs (and passing the tests). It makes scheduling a nightmare though since every little class matters so much.</p>