<p>so i applied to yale and was deferred, this isnt really about yale, but school in general.</p>
<p>so im in AP european history....first quarter 98, second 95, semester exam 94.....final semester average 96! UGGGGGHHH.
at my school an A is from 89.5 to a 96.4
and an A+ is 96.5 and up.</p>
<p>SOOOOO CLOSEEEEE</p>
<p>and on top of that, we had a test on the last day of the second quarter that for some reason does NOT count on the second quarter, and i got a 105 on it. so if it actually counted on 2nd quarter i would have an A+ for the semester.</p>
<p>so basically yale and other colleges will see AP Euro-A, NOT AP Euro 96 because my school does not send averages, just letter.
and i think 96 is ALOT better than an 89.5 and should be in a catagory above. but no my school is dumb.</p>
<p>im like crying right now...college is getting me soo emotional. am i overreacting? has anyone had any similar experiences?i know its just one grade..but still im really upset. it would have brought my gpa to a solid 7.8 instead of a 7.78 (my schools grading system is dumb, i have a 4.0uw tho)</p>
<p>how do you know they dont count + and -?? wow that makes me feel so much better. thanks. do they weigh based on ap/honors?</p>
<p>the val, sal, and me (#4) all applied early, and only the val got in (me and sal deferred). so basically if we all have As in all courses, our GPAs to yale should be the same?</p>
<p>you think 89.5-96 being an A is bad? At my school, an A is 89.5-100+. So my 98,99's are the same thing as some other kid's 89.5, when yuo can get a 89-90 without doing any work and you actually have to work for the 98,99! How do you think that makes me feel?</p>
<p>Are you for REAL? At my school, it's what the teachers want. Most do 89.5-92.4=A-, 92.5+ is an A. Most teachers don't do plusses. GPAs aren't weighted. I've got shafted probably 3 times with a 92.4. My rank is crap because nothing is weighted and I took the hardest classes possible.</p>
<p>Yeah, well if the school does rank right, it can help. I'm sure my rank hurts me, but if they weighted our school, I would probably be top 3 which would be good.</p>
<p>You're worrying over nothing. Yale will not care at all if you have one A as opposed to one A+. Also, if it helps, of the six people from my school who have gone to yale in recent memory, none of them have been valedictorian or salutatorian.</p>
<p>at my school there is an arts center and the kids in it get honors/AP credit for all their mandatory credits, meaning things like gym class which the whole school needs to take in order to graduate...they just get an extra point on thier gpa for it. where is the logic in this? i have no idea. plus honors classes which are really easy, get the same weight as AP classes which are much more difficult in comparison. an A is 94-98.4 A+99-100 and you get another .5 weight if you get an A+. for kids in honors classes that do the work and the plenty of extra credit you can get an A+ easily. so basically every one but me in the top ten is in the arts center and have taken half the number of AP classes i took/am taking but have padded gpa's. the system can be easily worked by the people at my school, but i moved into my state as a junior from a much fairer system and am very irritated by the way its done here. but at the same time the val or sal don't really have a chance at the ivy league schools (b/c of SAT scores, # of AP's, and they don't care that much about learning...just grades). ahhhhh.</p>
<p>well thanks for letting me vent a little CC-ers. hopefully come April we can all not care about any of this stuff when we go to the places we want!:)</p>
<p>I think this is more about college application process that's getting people unreasonably emotional. My daughter called me up at work, while I was in a meeting with a dozen people, to tell me that she got a B on her last test for the semester. She had an A+ average for her AP calc, and this B may bring it down to an A. I was trying to find the right words to tell her to get a grip in the nicest way and get back to my meeting. It's all good and this shall pass.</p>