I hate AP's....

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Really, what is the point of them?</p>

<p>You work your a** off just to get an "A", spending all of your weekends/weekdays working on homework and yet only get a +1.0 boost on your GPA. </p>

<p>They could help you prepare for the test if they didn't require so much work...why not just learn the material?...why so much work? I should of dropped mine the second day of school, but colleges love them and how else can one have a good chance of getting into an elite college?</p>

<p>Who knows...maybe I shouldn't have decided to take APUSH and AP Govt. as my first ones. Maybe they aren't the right type to start off with? Maybe other APs are easier?</p>

<p>I don't know, but I can hardly have a life. As I speak, I'm doing a 10 pg. outline for APUSH along with a bunch of other crap.</p>

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<p>+1.0? I wish...</p>

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<p>Wow..what do you get for an AP? Alot of schools give +2.0 for AP's. </p>

<p>If I were to get an "A" for an AP at my school, I would get 5.0 (with honors as a 4.5) points for it.</p>

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<p>haha... wow, I don't even know what we get in APs at my school. I should check so I can find out how much higher my grade will be.</p>

<p>EDIT: Okay so I checked... My school is dumb... Their thing is complicated and I will try to explain. The dumbest part is that Honors and AP classes get the same weight system... THAT SUCKS SOO BAD!
Okay so we have a 4.0 system here are the grades for AP/Honors and the amount given:
A+: 4.8
A: 4.5
A-: 4.2
B+: 3.8
B: 3.5
B-: 3.2
C+: 2.8
C: 2.5
C-: 2.2
Etc. </p>

<p>WOW... I kinda think my school is a bit harsh, I mean, some people get like 2 points. Plus in my school, in general level classes, they start to deduct points. Like an A+ in a general class is a 3.8. </p>

<p>haha oh well.</p>

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<p>An interesting paradox.
Colleges like them because taking them shows them you take the initiative and want to succeed in college, even though most students only take them so they look appealing on paper.</p>

<p>And yes, APUSH is probably the hardest AP.</p>

<p>.-_-.</p>

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<p>Great...so I take one of the hardest AP's in 10th grade...what a great first experience lol.</p>

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<p>My school weights by .5
AP and Weighted (we don't call them honors, a few weighted classes have "Advanced" or "Accelerated" in the name, but not very many). We also don't have A+'s.</p>

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<p>We don't get A+'s either, an A is an A. 89.5% is the same as a 103% where I'm at.</p>

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<p>Thats actually better IMO. And for us a 89.5 is not an A at all.</p>

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<p>It wouldn't be better in my case lol. I usually get 90%-95%. I never get many high A's.</p>

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<p>Pffft, I'd kill for a 1.0 bonus for an A in an AP class, cry when you only get a .333 bonus.</p>

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<p>At my school, an AP class = an Honors class = a class at Princeton University. They're all +1. So Calculus honors = Linear Algebra at Princeton. Talk about stupid.</p>

<p>But I love my school for not having +/-, because you can slack off once you've assured yourself an 89.5% for the year. :)</p>

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<p>no GPA boost here; actually i like it because otherwise everyone would be in a race to get as many as possible (some still do, but it is not as common as it would be)</p>

<p>But no +/- would be tight. A- is a 3.667 here, which is irratating. Plus, we have no A+ boost either. Gah.</p>

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<p>ugh we get only .25 boost. so the highest gpa is only 4.25. grrrrr</p>

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<p>Maybe I should have changed the thread title to "How does your school weigh AP's?". :P</p>

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<p>haha... was that actually your intention or did I end up changing it to that... </p>

<p>If the latter I am sorry :p. Anyway, I agree, APs are dumb ;)!</p>

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<p>It wasn't my intention, but whatever lol.</p>

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<p>My school doesn't add **** if we take APs.</p>

<p>I took the ones I was interested in.</p>

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<p>Yeah I like how Honors Geometry weights the same as Calc BC, and that If you take a CC class, IT IS NOT WEIGHTED! </p>

<p>My school's on the 100 point scale,
so the weight is 113% of the grade you earn.</p>

<p>I also like how my school makes you take 2 years of APUSH and still less than 5 people get a 5 out of about 60 or so.</p>

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<p>An apostrophe suggests possesion. </p>

<p>Sorry, I'm a bit OCD. :p</p>