<p>Pretty easy at my school, though less in my class have it now than in freshman or sophomore year.</p>
<p>Unweighted? The only people at my school with a 4.0 are the ones not in the IB program (about 70 of the 340 of us are in IB) who have one or no APs either. </p>
<p>Weighted? It’s fairly easy if you do your work and take ALL IB classes. About 70/340 of us have weighted GPAs over 4.0 (including IB and non-IB kids though since some IB kids still don’t have a 4.0 weighted)</p>
<p>*With the exception of two insanely smart people who overwork themselves and even take online classes to try to boost their weighted GPA and get them the valedictorian spot (when they could have just tied for it…).</p>
<p>Well what’s your scale? Some places call an A 90-100. If that’s so, we’d have a ton of kids get a 4.0. We’re on a 4.33 scale, and we have about zero to one graduate a year (out of ~220-250) get a 4.33. But if it were a 4.0 scale, I’m sure there’d be about 10 others.</p>
<p>let’s go with the standard
93-100
as A
and say that A+ equals the same as A.</p>
<p>Extremely hard. Genereally the best students in my school do full-IB or full-AP, and none of those have a 4.0 UW.</p>
<p>Very difficult (if we exclude those who take easy classes). Many take 6+ AP/IB and I can count on one hand those who made straight As through three years. And the number will drop this year (I certainly won’t make straight As again, that’s for sure).</p>
<p>As of senior year I think only 5 out of a class of 400 have unweighted 4.0s.</p>
<p>Pretty hard because in the four years there is always one really stringent teacher.</p>
<p>Physically impossible at my school. Only five people out of ~250 even have a GPA of 3.90+. We do no weighting, and it is quite literally impossible to get As or A+s in pretty much any English or history class unless you are a professional writer. We’re one of those schools that sends ~50% of the class to the Ivy league though, so I guess they understand that a 3.60 (the average GPA of students from my school accepted at Brown/Columbia/Penn/etc, judging from naviance.com) here is quite an achievement and harder than a 4.0 at most other schools.</p>
<p>where do you go to school, jackpot?</p>
<p>Horace Mann in Bronx, NY. Although not to the level of the elite boarding schools, we’re pretty ridiculous with college admissions. Last year we had 11 to Columbia, 12 to Brown, 8 to Harvard, 18 to UPenn, etc.</p>
<p>that is very ridiculous.</p>
<p>Impossible. In fact, it has never been done.
And my school sends around 25% to Ivies.</p>
<p>At my current HS, around 3-4 people out of a class of over 80 students graduate with a 4.0 UW cumulative… which is basically the top 5%. </p>
<p>At my previous one (a large international school in Singapore), with roughly 300 kids in each graduating class, I’d say that around 10 people had a 4.0 UW cumulative each year.</p>
<p>Wow, having 30+ kids going to Ivy league schools is impressive. I go to a very good public school but last year we only had 4 going to Ivy caliber schools. I don’t know if its because we’re public, and thus we generally have less money, but I know at my school about 20+ kids who could possibly end up at Ivy schools only apply to UVA and William and Mary because they are instate.</p>
<p>at DMHS in downtown LA, it is really hard! but it mainly depends who is your teacher! i have a 3.66 because I have a B in PE and Health!</p>
<p>nobody has gone through my school without getting a B atleast twice</p>
<p>Amendment to my previous post: Only 2 kids graduated with 4.0 UW cumulative last year. In a particularly competitive class there are 3… making for even less than the top 5%. </p>
<p>And at my previous school, the actual number of people who graduated with 4.0 UW’s was probably more like 3-4… top 1%.</p>
<p>Pathetically easy… no one in my school cares about anything. We only have around 5 AP classes in my school, and the only thing “advanced” about them is the name… we were rated “unacceptable” by the state this past year due to test scores/dropout rate…</p>
<p>There has only been one girl who has been able to get and maintain her 4.0 in my school.</p>