<p>ours is 100 on a 100 scale</p>
<p>A in AP classes- 5.0
A in honors classes- 4.5
A in regular classes 4.0</p>
<p>So I guess if you took as many AP's as possible and got all A's, you can probably get above a 4.7.</p>
<p>The twin valedictorians this year took 19 AP's and graduated with GPA of 4.717.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't put any weight on honors classes, and there are only 7 or 8 APs. The high possible by the end of your junior year is 4.4</p>
<p>It changes by year at my school because new AP/honors courses are added and taken away based on student demand. The 2005 valedictorian had a 4.2. I'm currently the valedictorian in my class, and I have a 4.1, but I still have all of senior year to go, so it could possibly turn into a 4.2 by the end of the year. If I were to take AP English IV and AP Biology next year, it would be higher (but I'm not).</p>
<p>Highest possible weighted: 5.0 = all AP's or GT's, and A's in all of them</p>
<p>Unweighted = 4.0</p>
<p>Man.. someone ranked somewhere around 100 at my school can be a valedictorian at one of these schools. I hope college doesn't really look at ranks.</p>
<p>Remember that they look more at the course grades themselves more then GPA, since GPA vary so much.</p>
<p>Well, the good thing about rank is that they it's only for comparison within your high school. Someone who was #20 with a 4.5 or whatever would always outrank some other school's valedictorian who couldn't go pass a 4.0. All schools have their smarter kids and their dumber kids, so class rank tells you how you compare between them. Usually people wouldn't have a problem for as long as they are top 10% to the very best schools, and if they're top 50% they should be fine for almost all the others.</p>
<p>Some people on this forum stress out about the silliest things.</p>
<p>It also involves the school's scale, however.
A 4.0 at a school where 4.0 is the highest you can go will look much more impressive then a 4.2 at a school that has a scale that goes to 5.0.</p>
<p>highest possible: 4.0. no classes have weight.</p>
<p>our school weights honors/APs at 5.0 for an A, 5.3 for an A+</p>
<p>the highest ever obtained was about a 4.98</p>
<p>4.857 is the highest possible at my school</p>
<p>At my #1 S's private school, it was a 4.4 w, but NObody makes straight a's. At my #2 S's public school, it is a 6.5 w. This year they had 21 valedictorians (an 89.5 rounded up to a 90 counts the same as a 100 in a class). I frankly think the "honors" classes should be for honors kids instead of dumbed down to allow more kids in. They have done away with low level classes because it might make people feel bad, so they had to dumb down the "academic" classes accordingly. I think any school that has 21 valedictorians is too easy! It needs to be changed (BUT not til after next year because my S is one of them ;-) !</p>
<p>5.6 weighted
4.6 unweighted</p>
<p>AP/Honors - 5
Unweighted - 4</p>
<p>Highest Possible 5.0, but no one ever got that, because you cannot take 6 or 7 AP classes at my school.</p>
<h1>1 in my class gets 4.3w.</h1>
<p>our vals each year get between 4.5-4.6 because of mandatory gym, lunch and homeroom to bring it down</p>
<p>Our theoretical max is somewhere around 4.6... although nobody has ever breached 4.57ish. The problem is that we have several non-honors and non-AP courses required by the state to graduate (i.e. PE, life management, one vocational class, one arts class (and AP art has non-weighted art prereqs), etc).</p>
<p>Next year, if all goes as planned, I'll graduate with the highest GPA in the school's history, a 4.595.</p>
<p>BTW, our scale is A=4, B=3, etc. APs get an extra point, and honors get a 0.5.</p>
<p>5.1 weighted</p>