<p>I'm at Stanford and I am more than happy here. Whyy would I need to transfer? I would never trade anything in the world for my Californian sun, let alone the bleak gray skies of Boston.</p>
<p>Maguo, you get 0.08 for every 9 weeks of AP classes you take but a full year AP class will only give you AP points for a semester. The rest of the year it is worth honors points. Thus, a full year AP class is worth 0.24 points ADDED on to your GPA. A one semester AP class gives ya 0.12 added to your GPA. An honors class which lasts only a semester ( I am in block schedule) gives ya 0.08 or 0.04 per quarter. </p>
<p>Therefore AP points added are double that of honors points. </p>
<p>My sophomore year I started with like a 4.2 but I was the only one to take two APs and two honors classes soo....</p>
<p>4.2 plus</p>
<p>.24 AP
.24 AP
0.08 honors
0.08 honors</p>
<p>= 4.9 (Straight A's brought it up slightly as well)</p>
<p>but if you take full APs for a year you get nearly a full point to your GPA...but only me and another student do that...we are crazy. I have actually taken more than that this year as a senior. My senior year I have taken like 6 APs and 3 honors which equates to...about...</p>
<p>1.24 added to your GPA by the time I graduate...</p>
<p>I should graduate with a 7.3 or something....kinda weird</p>
<p>I guess it sort of is inflated but I won't matter because they consider your rank much more helpful than your GPA that may be taken out of context.</p>
<p>They'll recalculate your GPA, I think.</p>
<p>That's what I've heard as well. Many schools will recalculate your GPA to avoid some of the ambiguity surrounding calculation methods.</p>
<p>But why would they....? I mean, shouldn't your rank tell it right away and wouldn't the recalc take way too long? How would they recalc it? Adding how many APs or honors?</p>
<p>I don't know how they recalculate. They definitely aren't as generous as your school, though. Not even as mine (which adds +1 to APs and honors in calculating the average, but not AFTER the average is calculated like at apfreak's).</p>
<p>staticsoliloqy
great going. stanford is an excellent university.
your presence in the harvard forum led me to believe you were interested in transferring to harvard. my mistake. sorry for being so presumptuous.
anyways. what are you majoring in? languages i guess??</p>
<p>languages? really nghi? what the heck? I thought chemistry or bio or something...</p>
<p>whats nghi?
some kind of abbr.
i am new around here.
care to elaborate?</p>
<p>nghi is an abbreviation for someone who got rejected from harvard unjustly since they had a "low" SAT score but really had a lot of passion and hardship and should have gotten in and probably is also a victim of Affirmative Action.</p>
<p>how is anyone a "victim" of affirmative action? i resent that.</p>
<p>People are victims of AA when it backfires. I'm DEFINITELY not doing languages. Zogoto got it right. I'm doing Human Biology with a dual concentration in Health Economics & Law and International Health & Development.</p>
<p>oh!
sorry again. i know i am annoyingly presumptuous.:D
i want to major in biology too. zoology or something. i really love animals.
BTW i love harvard but i dont really want to go there.(go figure me out)
and i guess i will be nghi soon</p>
<p>nghi...sounds fishy. i still dont understand it.</p>
<p>URMs getting seats in colleges takes away seats for ORMs. That is undeniable.</p>
<p>hahaha sorry a<em>ravin</em>hurt, I was just joking. Nghi is staticsoliloquy's name.</p>
<p>EDIT: Holy moly a<em>ravin</em>hurt, you're averaging 35 posts per day!</p>
<p>hey!!
i cant believe i actually fell for it.
nghi huh?? :)
(thats really bad. :) you denied me the opportunity of becoming a 'nghi')</p>
<p>35!! wow i dint know that. i am sick (stomach infection). had to stay at home all day long. actually i havent been going to school for 3 days now. guess that explains. :)</p>
<p>nghi. (curious name. bet its an oriental name. china, vietnam or korea)</p>
<p>BTW do you know nghi? and which university are you in?</p>
<p>oops.
looks like you are still in high school.
and yeah...
dont worry my infection isnt contagious =)</p>
<p>I'm in high school (I'm a senior). I know Nghi because he is an RSI alumnus.</p>
<p>okay.
i get it. finally.</p>
<p>nghi is vietnamese</p>