<p>Most schools give .5+ to honors and 1+ for APs</p>
<p>My school doesn't give anything extra for honors and a .488 (how weird?) for AP classes.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore taking 2 AP classes and I'm wondering if its even worth taking APs at all.</p>
<p>If i have to compete with schools who give +1 for AP to get into UVA or WM... ****...</p>
<p>stop complaining. i have .3 for ap and .2 for honors</p>
<p>pffft I get +1 for honors and +2 for APs :D</p>
<p>but we dont have class rank so it doesn't really matter</p>
<p>+0 for Honors, +1 for APs </p>
<p>take APs, it shows that you're taking the hardest curriculum.</p>
<p>Get over it. My school teaches all its classes on the college level with no weighting whatsoever. This includes tough second or third year courses like differential equations, vector calculus, U.S. foreign policy, and physics III.</p>
<p>When you apply to college, they will know your school doesn't weight and not factor it against you. In fact, most will use your unweighted GPA in making decisions. Weighting varies so widely and difficulty levels are so polar that colleges rarely look at weighted GPAs.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know it's tough. But you still gotta take those APs, it will look even worse if college see that you didn't take the opportunity to challenge yourself further by taking the APs your school offers.</p>
<p>pfft my school gives 0.025 points per semester of AP. No points for honors. </p>
<p>OP, don't worry about that though. They will put your grades in perspective to your school profile and how others from your school are ranked.</p>
<p>My school gives 0 for honors and 0 for APs. It's no big deal though, as colleges don't care about GPA per se, but rather courses and grades (subtle difference).</p>
<p>I would love that grading system. My school doesn't even give extra GPA weighting for AP classes.</p>
<p>They look at your transcript or (in the case of UCs) the actual classes you enter. They don't look at the GPA next to someone else's GPA and blindly compare them. There's no space on the application where you type in your GPA.</p>
<p>My school doesn't weight at all. It doesn't matter though, colleges will look at your transcript to see how difficult your courseload was.</p>
<p>pfft My school gives no points for anything, at all! You don't get any scores everyone just immediatly fails. And the only classes availabele are supppper difficult like Relativistic Quantum Mechanics III, also the teacher is required to teach blindfolded and the students have to learn with books in languages they don't speak, although a lot of kids here speak multiple languages so we all have our own languages. My Hyper Fluids book is in Portugeuse. Colleges really like that stuff. So yeah get over it.</p>
<p>My school gives .5+ for Honors and +1.0 for AP. Personally, I wish they would abolish the weighting. If you are smart enough to be in these courses, you shouldn't need the extra boast to GPA.</p>
<p>If all you care is getting a higher GPA, then take a bunch of easy A classes and learn nothing. </p>
<p>Or, you can take the boosted GPA and the tough courses and get over it.</p>
<p>What's really annoying is when schools (like mine) use weighted GPA to calculate class rank, thus punishing students who take extra classes like music and journalism which are never weighted. Because of this, a kid taking 5 AP courses and orchestra has a lower GPA and lower class rank than a kid taking 5 AP courses and a study hall. It doesn't seem fair.</p>
<p>mflevity</p>
<p>I know what you mean, there is a 6 way tie for number 1 for the class of 2011 and there all taking 7 aps and another weighted class.</p>
<p>Oh sorry if i made this thread sound like i was whining when i know people have it worse.</p>
<p>Mine doesn't weight. I would like yours.</p>
<p>At least you get a bonus for APs. My school counts Honors and AP as the same.</p>
<p>Hm...mine is very different.</p>
<p>There are 4 levels</p>
<p>Level 1 (Basic): 14 "quality points" (weighting points)
Level 2 (College): 17
Level 3 (Honors): 19
Level 4 (AP): 20</p>
<p>"College" does not mean university level, as it is below honors. These reflect the possible A+</p>
<p>Students were I attend were upset that AP has only 1 more point, because honors here is unbelievably easier.</p>
<p>Honestly I don't get why people complain. My school doesn't weigh at all. It's life.</p>