How does your school weight grades?

Applying to College
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<p>I ask because my HS just started weighting this year (but they weighted your old grades too). For every AP class, you get a point "bump" to your GPA (so, if you get a B in an AP class, instead of that being calculated as a 3.0 it gets calculated as a 4.0 in your overall average). Gifted or other advanced classes are not weighted (which stinks, considering you can't really take APs until your junior year; only AP Statistics is offered sophmore year). </p>

<p>Is class rank weighted? </p>

<p>I have a 3.7 GPA UW; my weighted GPA is 3.8, but this only takes into account my two AP classes from junior year. None from this year.</p>

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<p>My school calculates GPA on the 100 point scale. We get a 10% boost for APs/dual enrollment courses and a 5% boost for honors. So, if you get a 90 unweighted in an AP course, you'll be boosted to a 99. IMO this isn't a very good way of weighting--the people who get the lowest grades need the biggest boost, not the other way around! Class rank is weighted for us.</p>

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<p>At my school nothing is weighted until 11th and 12th grade when IB HL classes are given an extra 0.5. Each class is graded from 1-7. A 7 in a HL would give you 7.5 </p>

<p>I don't know about ranking. My school doesn't rank.</p>

4

<p>do you attend international or local school? actually nevermind, youre in IB...</p>

<p>but i dont get why youre in some "tiny village"</p>

5

<p>I do attend an international school. </p>

<p>My school is in the countryside outside of Munich, by the lake. I live in a very small village, like 300 people, 20 km from Munich.</p>

6

<p>My school multiplies our quarterly averages in each higher level class, whether honors, AP or IB, by 1.04. So if 1st quarter I get a 100 in Theory of Knowledge, it goes into my GPA for the quarter as a 104.</p>

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<p>they multiply it by 1.5 so 100 Adv. = 150%</p>

<p>;)</p>

8

<p>WHAT THE????? ok... then a 100% gpa would actually be pretty bad..... lol...</p>

<p>which school do you go to again??</p>

<p>ps, our school doesnt even weight grades... we just put either H or AP next to the course and the colleges then do whatever... so sick</p>

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<p>My school gives an extra 5% onto your final average for a specific honors or AP class, and the GPA for that honors or AP class also gets .5 points. A 3.0 in an honors/AP class after 5% has been added will be raised to a 3.5 by the extra .5 GPA points.</p>

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<p>My school uses the 7-point IB scale, and grades are multiplied by a certain amount depending on the difficulty of the class. (The administration doesn't tell us this. I only know from reading the school profile.)</p>

<p>11th/12th grade:</p>

<p>IB Higher Level: 1.1
IB Standard Level: 1.0
Theory of Knowledge: 0.4
Aesthetic courses: 0.4</p>

<p>10th grade:</p>

<p>No weighting is used.</p>

<p>9th grade:</p>

<p>Academic classes: 1.0
Information technology, aesthetic courses, and physical education: 0.5</p>