<p>Psh. I hate the unweighted grade/rank system.</p>
<p>Mine is:
Unweighted:
A: 4.0
A-: 3.75
B+: 3.5
B-: 3.25
C+: 3.0
etc.</p>
<p>and weighted (AP and Honors classes only):
A: 5.0
A-: 4.75
B+: 4.5
B: 4.25
C+: 4.0</p>
<p>Our val isn't ridiculous, in fact, our class is ridiculous in a good way.
Our val and 2 of our sals (we have 3, it's pretty insane) have never made a B and have taken 7-8 AP classes and 15-ish honors classes. The only thing that seperates the val and sals is one more ap class since we use the weighted GPA. i'm next in line, with the only difference being i had TERRIBLE spanish 1 teacher and was content with a B. the rest of the top 10 people are much the same and ridiculously close together (UW GPA >3.9, W GPA >4.9).</p>
<p>our school hardly ever, rather basically never sends kids to ivy league schools though. but this year was uncharacteristic, our val got into harvard and is going to duke (4.0 UW, maybe a 5.0 W?) and one of my best friends is going to upenn (3.94 UW, 4.9-ish W). no one else applied to any ivy league school that i'm aware of.</p>
<p>oh, our weighting system is a bit high in case you didn't notice.</p>
<p>AP = +2
A (93-100): 6.0
B (85-92): 5.0
C (77-84): 4.0
D (70-76): 3.0 (actually, i'm not sure if you get ap credit if you don't get a c or better..)</p>
<p>Honors = +1
A: 5.0
B: 4.0
C: 3.0
D: 2.0</p>
<p>We only use weighted. No unweighted.</p>
<p>A in Honors or AP = 5.0
A in Regular = 4.0</p>
<p>A 5.0
A- 4.7
B+ 4.3
B 4.0
etc. </p>
<p>The highest GPA is probably a 4.58 or something, since we don't have enough honors or AP courses to make a full 5.0. The only bad thing about our system is that you can inflate your GPA by taking like 6 study periods or something... making your GPA around a 4.7, which automatically makes you the valedictorian, since no one in the right mind would do something like that to decrease their chances of going to a prestigious university. Too bad there are people in my class who do that = higher rank than me just because they took so many study periods. Retarded!</p>
<p>i don't know if my current school... does that... all knew in the past was
4.0=a 3.0=b 2.0=c 1.0=f and AP= 10% added honors= 5% added. so if you get a 90 in an AP, it is a 90 + 9.0 = 99</p>
<p>Unweighted:
A+/A/A-: 4.0
B+: 3.5
B: 3.0
B-: 2.7
C+: 2.5
C: 2.0
C-: 1.7
D+: 1.5
D: 1.0
D-: 0.7
F: 0.0</p>
<p>Weighted (not on transcript; only for rank)
Add one to each "normal" grade scale point... in A and B range. No honors credit if you get below a B-.</p>
<p>No AP classes.</p>
<p>It should technically go up to 5.0, but with the rules (only 2 honors 1st term freshman year) and requirements (like PE, health, seminar) where honors are not offered, the "glass ceiling" for overall GPA is around 4.7.</p>
<p>My school is
A+ 95-100 4.5
A 90-94 4.0
B+ 85-89 3.5
B 80-84 3.0</p>
<p>etc. There is weighting though, in an honors or ap class, the grade is weighted 1 extra point for a full year class and .5 for a semester class. So an A+ is 5.5 etc. Our Val's gpa this year was a 5.1, around 5 percent of the class each year is above a 4.5. Around 4.7 is the top tier level.</p>
<p>Unweighted:
A+ 4.3
A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.4
B 3.0</p>
<p>Weighted:
Honors- multiply UW by 1.05
AP - multiply UW by 1.075</p>