<p>So this year the valedictorian at my school is someone who took the easiest (and fewest) classes possible (no APs) throughout high school. There were some ppl who took 3+ APs a year, which is considered a lot at my school, had marginally lower GPAs (like a 4.0 vs. a 3.98) and were not recognized at all. None of our grades our weighted. This seems really unfair to me. Does anyone else have a school that does this? What do you guys think?</p>
<p>The 3.98 students will get into a better school...much better, colleges aren't stupid.</p>
<p>It's unfair...let's kill them.</p>
<p>It is unfair. But you will be better prepared for college, while the val will probably flounder</p>
<p>hey at least you don't have a valedictorian as annoying as ours. the entire crowd will cringe during his entire speech.</p>
<p>Trust me, like citygirlsmom said, you WILL be more equiped for college. My only AP class in high school was in English and History so math and science was a big pain in the butt this year, I barely got a C average to be honest.</p>
<p>It's hella unfair!!!!If I were you, I'd go on a hunger strike...</p>
<p>Welcome to the debatable topic of weighted grades.</p>
<p>every school should adopt 1 good system.
but unfortunately we can't do that since the school decisions are left to each individual state govt.
but if we did do that, it should be like my school:
whoever took the most advanced classes and got As in them gets the title of val.</p>
<p>remember these kinda scenarios that you describe happen to a lot of good students, and college admissions officers do look at your courseload and see if it was the "hardest courseload available".</p>
<p>We always get multiple vals and sals. This year we had two vals and three sals. But they were in honors classes so they deserve it.</p>
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<p>Even if every school adopted one good system, the standards of the more "advanced" levels (or even the regular classes) are far too subjective. That's why GPA is basically pointless, and so is being valedictorian.</p>
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<p>Yes, that is one of the major problems of our current educational system. GPA and valedictorian significance are becoming way overrated.</p>
<p>(Oh, by the way, Sigh...do you still have my calculator? =)</p>
<p>^ Yeah I do =P I'll give it back after school starts again (unless you really want it back...).</p>
<p>Being Valedictorian isn't really that important, especially since most people will know that you were the better student anyway</p>
<p>Nah, it's ok...you can keep it for the summer...I had that calculator since 7th grade. LOL.</p>
<p>Yea our school is kind of messed up too. the grade you get in AP english or physics counts just as much as that in PE or dr. ed. Oh well</p>
<p>That is why our school not only weights your grades, but uses numerical values up to 4 places after the decimal point in GPAs. I think that it is the most fair.</p>
<p>From a different prespective at my school we have the IB, Health Academy, honors, and regular programs with weighted grades. Many health academy students and honor students aka traditional students complained that about the first 20 spots are automatically locked in to only IB students due to the weighted system and thought that it was unfair. Well life isn't fair and you have to deal with it.</p>
<p>Yes, it is unfair, do any of u guys have cum laude society?? at my school it's top 20% and only 4 AP's which isn't alot and i'm not going to be in it because i will have taken 12 AP's but my GPA suffered (like a 3.63 or somehing) i think it's retarded... and we don't weigh GPA's, which makes it more frustrating</p>
<p>yes we do have cum laude! and so many qualified ppl barely missed getting in because their APs took a toll on their GPAs</p>