<p>Do you have grade inflation at your school? I don't think I do, but it looks like it. I am ranked 100+ with a 3.7, but that's only because everyone at my pubic high school is extremely rich and white, and has no life. And everyone ranked above me took easier classes. I feel cheated.</p>
<p>in the private school i go to. its so ridiculous. i am in 11th grade with 3 APS and i barely have any homework. thats why i have been begging my mom to let me go back to public school. I miss the challenge. and i have a feeling this no work is gonna kick me in the *** when AP exams start rolling around</p>
<p>The senior class at my school had two kids with 97 unweighted averages and about eight from 93-97, but there were 24 kids with 92s. I guess that there isn't much differentiation between the top 10% and top 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Where I live all the public schools are easy as hell but if you go to any of the competitive privates (40% in my county do) then you should prepare to work your a** off.</p>
<p>Last year, the top 15 people had 99+ GPA. This year, the top 40~ people have 99+ GPA. And the class size is the same.</p>
<p>lol my valedictorian only has a 95 GPA. so no, i don' think there's grade inflation at my school.</p>
<p>only the top 8 of the class has x>90</p>
<p>My school has horrible grade inflation. I had a 3.8 unweighted gpa after my sophomore year and I was ranked in the 40's. I improved my rank a lot after they actually started weighting classes, but there are tons of kids in the top 10% who take ridiculously easy classes.</p>
<p>Yes my school has bad grade inflation in some classes, but most are graded fairly I would say. Many students are close to the top of the class who take easy classes (consequence of not weighting grades though) and I see too many people getting an A in classes when they clearly don't deserve it (I have been on the beneficial end of that a few times though I must say).</p>
<p>I'm first in my class with a 3.97 UW gpa, so nobody has a 4.0. I guess that says something.</p>
<p>In my class of 100 (even, makes it easy for class percentages lol) I have a 3.8 UW GPA, as we don't use weighted GPAs, and I'm 20th. Our top 10% range from 3.95-4.0. If I went to a school near us where the class sizes are 400+ I'd be ranked top 10% easily.</p>
<p>Blah at small class sizes + competitive people :(</p>
<p>"and I see too many people getting an A in classes when they clearly don't deserve it (I have been on the beneficial end of that a few times though I must say)."</p>
<p>So true. Like I see some people who frankly don't know anything get an A in regular history then I tell them I have an UW B+ in APUSH and they laugh at my face.</p>
<p>Anyone who isn't taking honors classes and is getting an A is taking the wrong class.</p>
<p>^I go to a crappy LAUSD school, where it is 85% hispanic. Since so many of the kids in the classes don't speak english, for the kids who do, it is an easy A. A girl who has a higher GPA than me spells obviously, and I quote her "ovioustly." If I miss out on UC ELC beacuse it's so freakin easy to get A's in regulars, I'm ganna get so ****ed.</p>
<p>Although, there is mad grade inflation in the AP's. The problem is I went to a hard private school prior, and my gpa suffered. There is grade inflation all around in publics.</p>
<p>Absolutely not.</p>
<p>At least, I don't think so. We turn up very high passing percentages for AP courses (like 95% have a 3+ and at least half of those people receive a 5).</p>
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I go to a crappy LAUSD school, where it is 85% hispanic. Since so many of the kids in the classes don't speak english, for the kids who do, it is an easy A. A girl who has a higher GPA than me spells obviously, and I quote her "ovioustly." If I miss out on UC ELC beacuse it's so freakin easy to get A's in regulars, I'm ganna get so ****ed.
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<p>That's because most English classes are literature classes. And obviously spelling ability shouldn't be a factor in other subjects.</p>
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That's because most English classes are literature classes. And obviously spelling ability shouldn't be a factor in other subjects.
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<p>not even. any class that gives someone who can't spell, nor solve anything harder than 12x=84 does not deserve a 4.0 or anything NEAR it.</p>
<p>It's huge here.
Big time.</p>
<p>At college application time they'd better have some good SAT/ACT, SATII, and AP scores to back up those grades with.</p>