<p>Apparently the reason why my school doesn't have weighted GPA is because it's considered grade inflation.
"Why should someone get a B when they got a C?" is the mentality from the teachers.
I tell that that's not what grade inflation is (as I think of it), and the teachers say it is, because you're increasing the grades for no reason.</p>
<p>Tell them how ironic it is that they want to protect the GPA, of all systems, from arbitrariness.</p>
<p>If a 4.5 from a school equals the same as a 5.2 from another school(Such as the same grade earned and difficulty of classes,), then colleges with see it as the same, otherwise the rest of the nation would certainly be at an unfair disadvantage against schools in Florida and Texas where kids with 5.0s, and some even with 6.0s, are commonplace. I just think that the reason the weighted system exists is to add that false sense of a higher GPA to convince kids to take higher level courses, and to prevent kids who only took courses such as P.E. and underwater basket-weaving to rank above another one who happened to get a B in a class such as organic chemistry.</p>
<p>I think it can be grade inflation in certain contexts.
A lot of people make false comparisons between GPAs on 4.0 and 5.0 scales. A GPA greater than 4.0 is not on a 4.0 scale, and a GPA greater than 4.0 is not “better than perfect.” When people tell me they have a 4.5 GPA, that means absolutely nothing to me unless I know the scale.
Personally, aside from class rank calculation I don’t think there’s any benefit to weighted GPA and I don’t think the honors/AP classes at most schools are difficult enough to justify calling a B an A. My school only uses unweighted (4.0 is the highest possible) and I don’t think anyone is suffering from it.
Also - with unweighted GPA, the highest possible GPA is 4.0 (because of convention, I guess). However, when you add weight for honors classes, the highest possible GPA will depend on the number of honors classes available at a particular school. It won’t be 5.0, because it’s generally impossible to take ALL honors classes every year.</p>
<p>Excuse you Ach7DD…but I worked my arse off for my A in Underwater Basket Weaving</p>