Lacking GPA policy

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>So this has been irritating me for over a year now. My school, like any other, has non honors, honors, and AP classes. Weighting GPA is this:
Non honors: A+>A
Honors: A+=A
AP: same weight as honors (wow, that makes a lot of sense.....a college lvl class is the same difficulty as a high school one for sure)</p>

<p>And they don't give more weight for taking more classes or more difficult classes. Theoretically, a kid could be taking 8 APs, have straight 100+%, and have the exact same GPA as the kid taking 6 honors classes with 93's (the lowest % for an A). The administration refuses to budge. Anyone else have a similar situation?</p>

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<p>wow, unfair! why doesn’t your school change the policy?</p>

<p>my school also has a weird grading policy. AP=honors, but if an AP exists an honors class doesn’t.
90-94: 3.75
95-100:4.0
so someone who gets all 95s gets a 4.0, while someone who gets all 99s and then one 94 gets a <4.0, even though his average is higher.</p>

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<p>at my school non-honors (all 2 that are offered) count as 4.0 weighted
Honors count as 5.0 weighted
AP’s count 6.0 weighted for an A</p>

<p>and there are no differentiations between +/- in any of them.</p>

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<p>that’s how my school is too
we get 5.0 for and A in AP classes and 4.0 for an A in any other class.
90-100=A (no - or +)</p>

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<p>AP courses have the most weight, followed by honors courses, Regents courses (the courses for those taking the New York State Regents exam, which is basically every class), and lastly non-Regents courses (electives).</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t weight grades at all.. :'(</p>