<p>I'm curious how it goes at other schools. I see people on here all the time that have like a 3.7 unweighted gpa but a 4.2 weighted. I've taken the absolute hardest schedule possible at my school. My unweighted is about 3.7, but my wieghted is only like 3.98. ***?</p>
<p>At our school, APs=4.5
Enriched=4.25
Regular=4</p>
<p>At my school, Academic = 4.0 and Honors = 5.0, but in the end it works because you compete with people from your own school. If your 3.98W means that you are ranked highly, then it doesn't matter what other people's GPAs are.</p>
<p>^And 6.0 for APs. </p>
<p>But Chaos doesn't know that because he's a lowly freshman. :)</p>
<p>At my school AP and Honors classes are weighted the same at 5.0 while advanced classes are 4.5 and then college prep (regular) classes are 4.0</p>
<p>^^^That is nothing like my school....I wish!
We only get .33 for Honors and .43 for AP which is unfair b/c AP is a LOT more difficult than honors.
my GPA is a 4.3 with our wieghting scale, but people with less honors/ap coures have higher gpa's than me b/c they got an A+ in and honors/regular course and I got an A- in an AP/honors course.
With the scale that you two identified, I would have a 5.2 GPA (All A(+/-)'s in honors courses and 2 A+s in AP courses). and be higher than the current valedictorian who would have a 5.0 GPA (all A(+)s in honors courses)</p>
<p>my schools system is as follows...</p>
<p>take the grade.. say a 90... subtract it from 100 = 10
multiply the difference, in this case 10, by .2 for regulars, .4 for honors and .7 for APs.
Whatever you get when u multiply the difference times the appropriate decimal, add that to the original grade, 90, and thats what your weighted grade is</p>
<p>in my school you cant have above a 4.0</p>
<p>When I was back in Miami they used to do it like this:</p>
<p>Regular: 4
Honors: 5
AP: 6</p>
<p>Then later on I moved and now in my school they just add 0.2 for honors and 0.4 for AP which explains why my Weighted GPA isnt that high. A friend of mine had A's all of his HS years while in the IB program and his GPA was like 4.xx's high in my current school and when he moved back to Miami with their Weighting system he now has like a 5.86 (He got straight A's always but some classes were regular and therfore did not get the +2.0 weight).</p>
<p>This doesnt really matter since college reweight everything to their scale.</p>
<p>we have a weeeiiird grading system. it's 8 for normal classes, 9 for honors/AP, and 7 for below-normal classes</p>
<p>......SADLY....i think i'm in the only school where AP classes and Honors classes aren't weighted at all........really sad.. Bronx High School of Science
if they weighted...my average would be in the 98-99 range</p>
<p>my main beef with our weighting system is that there is such a large disparity in difficulty between regular classes and enriched and AP, and the weighting system doesn't really account for it. you can basically show up and get an A in regular classes (many people do) and it has a large effect on class ranking.</p>
<p>Regular:4 Honors: 5 AP: 6
I think that's for all of NC</p>
<p>Honors & AP - 4.5
Regular - 4.0</p>
<p>my school dosen't weight grades, so the senior val has taken none of or grand total of four aps and one honors, but the senior sal has taken them all with one a- in ap bio. this makes me fear for my future</p>
<p>Didnotfaillife - I'll be laughin' when I'm Vally. ;)</p>
<p>Regular: 4.0
Honors: 4.5
AP: 6.0
"Approved" college classes (like Inventive Problem Solving): 6.0
Other college classes (like Fundamentals of Engineering): 4.5</p>
<p>Our school grades out of 100. We don't have Honors classes, we have "Accelerated" classes, but they don't get weighted.</p>
<p>APs on the other get you 1 point added to your GPA, but that's only if you recieve a final grade of 90+ n the calss (I think the'yre changing it to 95+).I also believe that an 85-90 as a final grade gets you a .5 on your GPA. I don't know about grades that low.</p>
<p>Example: My unweighted GPA for Freshman and Sophmore year is 95.618. I took AP Euro Sophmore year and recieved a 95 as my final grade. Thus, my GPA for the first two years of my high school career was raised to a 96.618. So if I can keep the 98.625 from my first Junior year semester until the end, my average will be rasied to a 96.stuff unweighted. With AP Euro and the 4 APS I'm taking this year, my average will be 101.stuff unweighted for the first 3 years of high school.</p>
<p>4 - regular
4.5 - pre-ap (or I guess honors)
5 - AP</p>
<p>Well, our school doesn't do the whole 4.0 scale...the grades are just taken out of 100.</p>
<p>AP classes are weighted 8% and honors classes are weighted 5%. For class rank, that's pretty nice. My 97 in AP chem last quarter being counted as nearly a 105? Can't beat that.</p>
<p>It seems pretty generous compared to other schools, actually.</p>
<p>Regular: 4.0 for an A
Honors: 4.6 for an A
AP: 5.0 for an A</p>
<p>If one were to get an A in these types of classes at my school:</p>
<p>AP: 5.0
Dual Enrollment: 5.0
Honors: 4.5
Regular: 4.0</p>