<p>I am complaining about my school's grade system</p>
<p>no extra gpa for honor classes.. 82 is like freaking c-. and 92is like freaking b +. </p>
<p>it's impossible to get an a +.. </p>
<p>isn't this an disadvnatage for me when i apply to colleges? IT IS NO FAIR!</p>
<p>It doesn't matter. The high school here has the same measurements as yours, and there is no weighting for APs or honors. Colleges often strip away the weighting anyway and weight the grades according to their own formula. They have to, really, because it varies so wildly from school to school.</p>
<p>It's only a disadvantage if your GPA, which doesn't award extra points honors classes, determines class rank. Therefore, students who take regular classes may have a better rank than you. </p>
<p>But your GC would tell colleges about that (as well as the school's really strict grading policy), so that wouldn't be much of a problem either.</p>
<p>Nope, our HS is not tough - 90-100 is an A (no plusses or minuses here), 80-89 is a B, etc. Honors weighted as 4.5 for A, AP classes as 5.0 for A. It should all be explained in the school profile that goes out with your transcript.</p>
<p>my school is amazingly tough... different school system but on this one essay we just got back from our finals... I got 14/15 and came 26th... which means that 25 people got full marks, thats 25/160... apparently only 8-10% are supposed to get in the top band (13-15), and we have more then that getting full marks. I'm actually getting decently good marks, but it doens't look like it on my grades which is kind of depressing.</p>
<p>Take heart, the colleges look at the school profile report. Which gives them all sorts of information and relates it to performance on SAT's I and II, AP, etc. That tends to solve the inequity issues do to grading system.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. At one elite school that my eldest son looked at, his admission counselor said that the admissions office unweighted everyone's gpa and then recalculated the unweighted gpa using academic courses only; it then assigned a value to the rigor of the curriculum the student had taken, both objectively and within the context of what the high school had available. I'm fairly sure that this is a rather common procedure.</p>
<p>why would colleges get rid of weighting systems?
i feel as though students taking the rigorous courses should be given more credit for the course. somehow or another.</p>
<p>first off...many schools dont offer GPA boosts for honors classes...my school doesn't
second off....there is a reason that colleges have admissions officers who specialize in areas. there is on who knows your school and its grading system.....they know that 3.8s are not all the same. stop freaking out</p>