<p>I'm at a canadian school that offers I.B., which of course, gets "standardized", meaning their marks gets boosted so they are comparable to regular, non-ib marks. Is this whats meant by a "weighed" gpa? because we use the Percent system, not GPA system.</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>There are schools that use percent system in the US. GPA is just a variant of percent. Weighted GPA = adding marks to AP/IB/honors courses.</p>
<p>urr so in addition to getting standardized (adding marks), IB students get weighted EVEN more marks?</p>
<p>ure only going to get added marks once, because of the difficulty of IB. I was in it and my personal opinion is that its a great program holistically but for getting into competitive colleges it is redundant and possibly detrimental.</p>
<p>wow really, can you elaborate on why its redundant/detrimental?</p>
<p>I think it's because IB is much more time-consuming than regular courses. It can hurt your unweighted GPA and kill time set aside for extracurricular activities at the same time</p>
<p>dooit: haha, that certainly ain't IB at my school. all my IB friends are around where i am in terms of work load.</p>
<p>but are you guys even slightly suggesting that HYPS and other top schools don't consider IB THAT much better over regular? i mean, its not AP...</p>
<p>how do a levels match up? I know you get credits, as with AP/IB, but is there a pecking order?</p>
<p>i dont think HYP will prefer over IB over a student who takes lots of APs. First, alot of kids dotn have IB schools in their areas. Second, as the above post states, IB is real time consuming without the benefits. My whole point is that if you have two kids with identical stats...one with IB and the other with 8 APs, you arent going to choose the IB kid on the acount of his academics. Its a negligible difference and since IB is so time consuming, i dont really see the benefit in it. That said, there are plenty of kids who can take IB and still do other things + make great grades...its really a preference thing.</p>
<p>yes, but ppl, i didn't take ib nor ap. but still have top weighted mark among boys. does this counter me not taking ib? my school doesn't offer ap.</p>