My school doesn’t have “Honors” classes and I’m confused as of to how they rank compared to high achievers, gifted, magnet, and accelerated classes. In my county in Georgia, the student groupings from highest to lowest are:
Magnet --> you’re called a magnet student
Gifted --> you’re called a gifted student
Accelerated --> you’re called a high achiever
General --> you’re called a resident student
You’re placed based on your elementary school ITBS scores.
I’ve heard that honors classes are below gifted, but I’m not sure. Does anyone know what course level honors is equivalent to?
Other schools don’t have “gifted” classes; at my school, students who were identified as gifted in elementary school had the option of choosing regular or honors classes during middle school. No restrictions are placed upon anyone; where I live (and I suspect this is the case for most areas), the progression is: remedial --> college preparatory --> honors --> AP. However, for us, the AP/honors distinction is more of a grade level/course offerings thing than a level thing. AP classes are obviously harder, but there isn’t an AP Precalculus. In addition, not many students are placed in remedial coursework.
I’d say they’re at about the same level, but you can’t really compare them.
It seems like a lot of the impact this has on college applications will be how pretty the title sounds. Unless if the admissions officer has a good understanding of your high school, it’s difficult to tell whether “gifted” is better than “magnet”, but I’d say “gifted” does sound more impressive than “honors”.
I’ve never heard of anything like this. I go to a magnet school, though that mainly only means there’s a specialization in curriculum.
@Frigidcold Are you in Georgia?
@Frigidcold Hm.You know what, I think it’s just our county that does this…