<p>I am so sick of schools giving out 5.0s for their so-called honors classes. who determines honors??? it's just so stupid!!! Any school can call any class they wan't honors. Only AP classes should get the GPA boost. ..I HATE GRADE INFLATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1</p>
<p>Right. The fact that a course is labeled "AP" automatically means that it is rigorous...</p>
<p>You know, it doesn't really matter how each individual school does its weighting system. Colleges know that the weighted GPAs are inflated, and therefore rely upon unweighted GPA, class rank, or their own weighting systems.</p>
<p>At my school, AP and honors courses are weighted the same...because they are, actually, the same. And neither one is worth as much as 5.</p>
<p>How does it matter to you, anyway? Colleges recalculate, and difficulty isn't standard even in AP courses.</p>
<p>Our honors courses are multiplied by 1.05 and out APs are multiplied by 1.1. For the record, the most difficult course I've ever taken was Honors, not AP.</p>
<p>I think most people woudl agree with me that AP chem. and Honors Chem. is pretty similar except that AP chem. goes a little bit more deeper.</p>
<p>You seriously need to relax. Colleges probably recalculate GPAs. </p>
<p>I don't even get a 1 point bump for APs at my school and the grading scale is harsh.</p>
<p>I think using unweighted GPA is even dumber. Because then there would be no incentive to take these "honors" classes.</p>
<p>For example, if I get a B in Honors Chemistry, and so that counts as a 3.0 (for that class) w/o weighting. Then I could have taken regular, which is much easier and gotten an A+ to get a 4.0.</p>
<p>In conclusion, weighting does make sense. Like the others say, AP does not necessarily mean harder. In my school, AP Environmental Sciences is known as "the bullsh** AP class" because it is so easy and you don't do anything in that class. Pretty much everyone gets an A or a B no matter what. On the other hand, honors precalculus is known as one of the hardest classes in the school. Some ppl say that AP Calc sometimes feels easier; the honors precalc teacher never teaches anything. It's pretty much a teach yourself course. Therefore, honors can be much harder than AP.</p>
<p>The GPA is a ridiculous, outdated concept. Sure, it allows a ranking of the class and an orderly graduation hierarchy, but is there any logical reason to keep it? Universities should compare an applicant's course load with the school's course offerings and be given grade distributions for each class to perhaps measure grade inflation. They could use that in conjunction with considering standardized test score distributions at the school to get a good sense of the student's relative ability and the overall quality of the school, instead of relying on some silly number that doesn't take into account any subtleties.</p>
<p>guys it doesnt really matter- colleges recalculate your gpa anyway how they want to do it.</p>
<p>you know, most colleges recalculate your gpa based on the courses you take and grades you report, so grade inflation in secondary school doesn't really count in any area except the choosing of valedictorian and salutatorian. at least, that's how i see it, and why differing grade scales don't worry me a bit.</p>
<p>umm.. we get .5 for APs and nothing for honors(all our classes are honors). 5.0 is crazy</p>
<p>"I think using unweighted GPA is even dumber. Because then there would be no incentive to take these "honors" classes.</p>
<p>For example, if I get a B in Honors Chemistry, and so that counts as a 3.0 (for that class) w/o weighting. Then I could have taken regular, which is much easier and gotten an A+ to get a 4.0."</p>
<p>How about the incentive, of <em>GASP</em> learning?!</p>
<p>"How about the incentive, of <em>GASP</em> learning?!"</p>
<p>You've got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>Some schools give 6 points for AP classes and 5 points for honors. GPA (and class rank for that matter) is a crock.</p>
<p>that is not true at all ... ive taken both and ap is much harder</p>
<p>my school:
honors chem and ap chem - 5.0
honors phys and ap phys - 5.0
honors precal - 5</p>
<p>Seriously you need to shutup and go with the flow. Some schools, all they have is honors for lower level. My school calls the lower classes GATE or Honors. GATE Biology, Honors Chem, Gate English, Honors English, etc. Honors English has been my toughest class and is at least 3x tougher than our AP English because of the teacher, so stop your crying.</p>
<p>At my school:</p>
<p>AP/GT: 6.0
Honors: 5.0
Standard: 4.0</p>
<p>Which I think is good, because honors classes at my school (not all schools) are pretty easy. But I wouldn't worry about it, college end up putting all GPAs on a 4.0 scale with a formula anyway.</p>
<p>at my school there is no grades on a 4.0 or 5.0 scale- there is only average out of a 100- if u take a honor or a.p class ur final average gets multiplied by 1.1- but to get into the honor and a.p class u need a 93 or above in each trimester from the previous year</p>
<p>you know what. i think i should be awarded a 6.0 gpa. just because.</p>