<p>important question: </p>
<p>Tonight our high school decided to remove the weighted class rank from all students' transcripts. Thus leaving only an unweighted GPA on the transcript. WHAT DO ALL OF YOU FELLOW CC'ers HAVE ON YOUR TRANSCRIPT??? AND IS IT YOUR OPTION AS TO WHETHER WHAT IS PUT ON, OR NOT PUT ON?</p>
<p>both weights are on my transcript, and i have no choice about it either way.</p>
<p>my school doesn;t weight at all or do class rank... so I just have the unweighted</p>
<p>Our school switched to a similar policy two years ago. The first step was to remove class rank altogether. Now we do deciles. Last year, they stopped weighting all the classes for GPA. It was really controversial but I don't think it matters much. </p>
<p>However, on an interesting note, they refused to unweight our past years. So our cumulative GPA's have two years of weighted classes and two years of unweighted. Thus, if kids chose to take classes in sophomore year and got a weighted A, the kids that took it junior year got an unweighted A and will have a lower GPA although they got the same grade in the class. Our administration is famous for its incredibly high IQ...</p>
<p>didn't you get a likely letter, panther? there's no need for freaking out on your end at this stage. :)</p>
<p>I think he was just interested in discussion of the topic in general. Definitely no need for panic on his part.</p>
<p>I just get an unweighted GPA and no ranking which sucks in a way cuz my GPA is low because of the tough classes I'm taking with really tough teachers, and none of those get weighted so I get no "reward" for taking hard classes. It's good that I have no ranking though since if my school did rank, then all the people in easy classes with good grades would be at the top of the class.
Hopefully Yale will weigh my AP and Honor classes.</p>
<p>I imagine that Yale does what I've heard about other schools: looks at your transcripts on their own and figures out everyone's GPA on a uniform scale. After all, some schools weight only AP classes, others weight AP classes and honors classes, others don't weight anything... So yeah, I suspect they make everything calculated in the same system before comparisons are made between applicants.</p>
<p>yeah i was not "freaking out" but rather I was looking for a solution. My good friend is the school president and he has to go in front of the school board every month and give a report. With the new policy to remove the class rankings, many kids want an alternative. The board said it would be open to suggestions and thus, i am looking for them (the easy way ) haha!! I just was interested in the policy that everyone else's school had in place?</p>
<p>our school doesn't rank in any way (not even deciles)and they just voted to get rid of weighted GPAs</p>
<p>my school doesn't weight, but we do have class rank, so it's slightly unfair. I'm the only person in my school with 4 APs, but if I get a 3.9, I'm down to #2 while the girl with only 1 AP can pass me by.</p>
<p>Our school gives AP, IB, honors, pre-AP, and pre-IB courses an extra point. However, us IB children complain b/c we don't get anything extra even though our IB courses are harder. The three ppl in front of my for class rank aren't in IB, which makes me angry.</p>
<p>that's really not fair to have rankings without weighting--if they're not going to weight, they shouldn't have rank</p>
<p>we dont have rank or deciles (as of this year) but we have grade distribution charts? doesnt that sort of act like deciles/rank though? Because I believe the chart basically shows how many people fall within a certain range of GPA, so i mean....its almost like doing deciles.</p>
<p>same here. I think its kind of good though. I made it into the top portion of the chart by .05! 4 other kids are ahead of me in a class of 36. Not good i'm assuming</p>