<p>Hi, sorry if the title's kind of confusing, but I was wondering, what's the Canadian equivalent for an honors course in the States? Because I see when people calculate their GPAs, there's the "weighted" GPA, and I'm not sure how to do that..
In Canada, we have about 3 levels, College, Mixed (College/University), and University... so does this mean our "University"-level courses are like honours in the States?
Can someone please clarify this for me? Thanks so much! :)</p>
<p>Yes i was wondering about this tooo… bumpppp</p>
<p>please someone help :)</p>
<p>bumpppp…</p>
<p>lol… it would be a biggg help for me if university courses really are equivalent to honors courses… those teachers mark so hard!</p>
<p>Honors is all subjective based on the school in America.</p>
<p>At my school, honors isn’t all that different from normal, it’s just a slightly more well-behaved bunch of students that get 5% extra weight in the class.</p>
<p>The whole subjectivity that is the GPA grading scales in American high school is the reason I think we have SATs and ACTs—because it makes no sense comparing all these different GPA systems and schools.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is an equivalent to honors in Canada if that’s all you have. Regular is a regular class, and then there’s Honors which is slightly more rigorous (only slightly), and then there’s the AP, which is the most rigorous possible in America.</p>
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<p>You’re both thinking about this the wrong way. Colleges don’t use some strict weighting formula. You’d be lucky to find two high schools that do it the same way…mainly you’ll see HS’s here weight in order to fairly rank their students, something that’s going out of style.</p>
<p>You need to take the hardest classes at your school, do the best in those classes, do well on your SAT/SAT Subject Tests, and be active outside of school.</p>
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<p>Regular is the “standard” level of a course. Honors pretty much splits the school between the idiots and the above average. AP are special courses only offered in certain subject, and which have special test–classes honors students take when possible. AP (or IB) have become the “highest” level courses, but college/university courses (While in high school) have started to supplant that role.</p>
<p>In the end though it doesn’t matter how your school lines up to American schools…it’s about the stuff I listed above.</p>
<p>I know there are a feww canadian high schools that offer IBs and even APs…but my school did not offer any. So that would automatically make the University courses the hardest at my school. But considering the “low” level of my school, I doubted if any colleges would have a profile of my school, showing what courses are not offered. So my concern was, the adcom would, not knowing whether there are any AP/IBs at my school, think that my courseload of University courses was not the most rigorous it could possibly be. That was why i was hoping that the US sees the University courses at least as honors courses… because that is basically what University courses are like… for “smarter” people who want more work.</p>
<p>^ Your guidance counsellor would provide the information on your school and indicate if you took the highest level of courses available to you.</p>