How Does Your School Add Weight for Honors/AP Classes?

<p>No i meant… should a schoolhave some kinda accreditation ro be allowed to offer honors? or can school offer it? i wanna petition my school into offering at least honors… it offers neither AP nor honors!</p>

<p>Regular Honors AP
99-100 =A+ 4.0 5.0 6.0
96-98 =A 4.0 5.0 6.0
93-95 =A- 3.667 4.667 5.667
91-92 =B+ 3.333 4.333 5.333
88-90 =B 3.0 4.0 5.0
85-87 =B- 2.667 3.667 4.667
83-84 =C+ 2.333 3.333 4.333
80-82 =C 2.0 3.0 4.0
77-79 =C- 1.667 2.667 3.667
75-76 =D+ 1.333 2.333 3.333 7
3-74 =D 1.0 2.0 3.0
70-72 =D- 1.0 2.0 3.0
0 – 69 =F 0 0 0</p>

<p>We add .08 per year for each AP/dual enrollment 1 credit class onto cumulative/rank GPA; .04 per year for each honors 1 credit class</p>

<p>My school does the following:</p>

<p>1.06x - Honors & AP
1.03x - Courses that end in a regents exam
1.00x - All other courses</p>

<p>Fascinating topic, as usual.</p>

<p>My school adds .04 to our weighted GPAs for each of up to three honors or AP classes we take each semester, leading to a maximum possible weighted GPA of 4.96 by the end of senior year (the points accumulate, meaning that your unweighted GPA can fall while your weighted GPA rises). I think the weighting system’s a little naive: a senior taking honors electives in English, history, and science, a couple of regular classes, and a couple of study halls =/= a senior taking AP English, AP Euro, AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP Computer Science, and AP Spanish. I suppose, though, that it’s just as naive to hope for a more precise system of weighting classes that retains objectivity. Only accepting up to three per semester, though, needs to go.</p>

<p>I would consider 90% of my school as being very dumb. “Ghetto kids.” Which is why honor classes adds 5 points (100-point scale) and AP adds 10 points, then they’re averaged together.</p>

<p>Our school computes two GPAs: Regular and Academic. All courses included in regular GPA with no weighting and a A=4/B=3/C=2/D=1/F=0 scale. Academic GPA only includes classes in Math/Science/English/languages/social sciences plus honors and APs. Scores for non-honors and Non-APs is same 4/3/2/1/0 scale. Scale for honors and APs is A=5/B=4/C=3/D=2/f=0. Also no class rank is computed or published. Result is that to get into top schools (i.e Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown or its equivalent) usually requires 4.8 Academic GPA or better. To get into top midwest schools (i.e. Michigan or Notre Dame) takes a 4.3 to 4.5 or better and to get into our state school (Illinois) usually takes 4.1 or better.</p>

<p>Our school just adds a 0.5 to honors and 1 to APs (and then there’s classes with pre-req APs and some have honors weight while others have AP weight??)</p>

<p>If you get 96-100 in class, it is a 4.0, honors 5.0, AP 6.0… This is all averaged together into the final weighted GPA. I know a senior with a 5.3 W GPA because she took like 12 AP classes.</p>

<p>My school adds a full ten points to grade (max 110%) for honors classes and twelve points to AP classes. In texas if you rank in top ten percent of class you get automatic admission to a public texas college except UT (this year only top 8%). If you don’t take AP classes at many of the high schools it makes it very hard to rank in top ten.</p>

<p>My school does no weighting at all. Weighting just makes everything more confusing, in my opinion.</p>

<p>Most schools are like mine, which AP classes give A’s a 5.0, B’s a 3.75 and C’s get a 2.5.
Well I’ve gone to two schools, both do it this way. Maybe not most, but it’s gotta pretty standard if 2 out of 2 random schools use this.</p>

<p>The differences in how classes are weighted explains why colleges unweight scores.</p>

<p>Yeah and imagine how hard it would be to become the valedictorian if classes weren’t weighted. It would be about %'s 0.0</p>

<p>Regular scale is up to 4.0.
Honor classes are weighed to 4.4
AP are weighed to 4.8</p>

<p>“Yeah and imagine how hard it would be to become the valedictorian if classes weren’t weighted.”</p>

<p>At my school, the reason people don’t take honors classes isn’t because the classes are too hard - it’s because they’re too lazy to do most of the work in the first place, so they’re not going to have a 4.0 in the regular classes either. Even if a school uses only unweighted GPA for ranking, the people taking honors are still likely to come out ahead because they’re the only ones with any ambition (where I live, at least). I don’t have a 4.0 and I’m ranked fourth. All the people ranked above me have taken the same number of honors classes.</p>

<p>For my school an A in an honors/AP class is weighted as 5 points, while an A in a regular class is 4 points.</p>

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Shout out to this ignoramus.</p>

<p>In my school, they add .5 to honors, and 1 point to AP classes. That’s how they make class rank in my school. The top student in our class has like a 7.something GPA (not a lie, saw it from my counselors grade book thingie. She’s always talking to us about that stuff lol)</p>