<p>what is more impressive, </p>
<p>a 3.9/4.0 GPA with only 2 honors classes
or
a 3.8/4.0 with all AP/honors classes</p>
<p>The second one. You’ve challenged yourself, and in the end, GPA isn’t everything.</p>
<p>^Agreed. Colleges like to see that you’ve challenged yourself.</p>
<p>I hate these sorts of questions. You’ll rarely get a straight answer from an adcom; instead, they’ll say, “The A in the AP class, of course,” and smile. Cheeky, but with tens of thousands of applicants, top schools can afford to pick students who have high GPAs and a challenging courseload, not one or the other.</p>
<p>^But the difference between a 3.8 and a 3.9 is negligible at most…</p>
<p>Stupid thread.
A .1 difference gives the massive edge to the AP schedule. If it was a full point of a difference, that’d be something. A 3.9 in on-level classes is honestly awful anyway, they are so completely designed for the lowest common denominator it’s nearly impossible to not get an A. Having a couple honors classes isn’t impressive at all either.
Onlevel<Honors<<<<<<<<<<<<AP</p>