<p>I think it is terrible that at large public schools (like mine with an almost 900 body class) allows students to take easy classes and get 4.0s, while those who take AP and other hard classes are stuck with lower GPAs. Last year, we had 26 valedictorians, and not one had taken an AP class in four years of high school. We offer 16 of them.</p>
<p>I know many colleges rework GPAs for admissions (and I'm not seriously worrying about it), but I just hate people at my school who say they want to take easy classes for the 4.0.</p>
<p>we had a similar problem like this. Each class had about 12- 14 valedictorians, but the administration decided give an additional 0.5 to AP classes so now we only have 1-2 valedictorians.</p>
<p>we choose valedictorian based on weighted gpa, but i hate that colleges even look at unweighted gpa. i know a kid who took all regular classes and got all his requirements out of the way his freshman and sophomore years. so now all he takes is the easiest senior english, gym, home ec, 2 art classes, and 3 opens. he has a 4.0 unweighted by taking the easiest schedule imaginable. it's so annoying because i have taken as many ap's as i possible could've and i have a 3.7 uw gpa because of it.</p>
<p>At my D's high school AP classes are weighted, but college classes that she takes at the local university for both college and high school credit are not weighted. So even though she is taking some college classes the person that stays at high school all day taking AP will have a higher GPA than her.</p>
<p>I can completely understand. I dual-enroll in college classes at a nationally-ranked university, yet all I ever hear is that it is SO important to take AP classes. Why substitute for the real thing?</p>