<p>I have like a bizzillion AP classes and my school doesn't weight them.</p>
<p>Kthxbye.</p>
<p>ok yea thats unfair but your topic title POed me. BECAUSE I HATE THE KIDS IN MY SCHOOL THAT TAKE NORMAL CLASSES JUT TO GET THE 100 AVG AND HAVE A HIGHER RANK THAN ME MAKING ME LOOK WORSE TO COLLEGES. ps we rank our aps as honors and some of my honors are much harder than how many gpa points we get...my precalculus class last year averaged about an 83. I got an 86. With the +5 it is a 91 W. Kids taking the normal level math get like 99s UW....wreck my rank. I get teh gayz0red!</p>
<p>Yes we have those kids too. They take classes that a middle school student can pass with ease and like ONE honors class.</p>
<p>That sucks that your AP classes aren't weighted, hopefully when you apply to college, your guidance counselor will mention it on your application.</p>
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<li><p>Nobody said anything was going to be fair.</p></li>
<li><p>Colleges recalculate GPAs using their own arcane formulae, and they know who took the hard classes.</p></li>
<li><p>When I was in high school one of our valedictorians was a girl who I had NEVER seen in four years of taking the most challenging classes in our school. It turns out that she took mostly home ec classes -- but got "A"s in all of them. There is nothing wrong with home ec classes (or whatever they are called now), but it was hard to consider that she was at the same level as the three other students who had straight "A"s for four straight years. It didn't seem fair to me, but that was the rule -- if you had straight "A"s, you were a valedictorian. A good friend of mine in HS had one "B" as a freshman -- she was "salutorian" taking a steady diet of Track One (you would say "Honors" now) classes.</p></li>
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<p>Look, colleges look at the courses you've taken; many schools provide a course list; if they see that you are challenging yourself, they won't think anything of it. Also, I'm pretty sure that adcoms are informed of the scaling at schools for prospective students that they are interested in, based on courses taken, EC's, and whatnot.</p>
<p>Basically, if they don't accept you, it'd be because you weren't in any way interesting. If you pique their interest, they'd check up on it, since every student is an investment to school prestige.</p>
<p>I would think that an AP Calc BC looks better than taking "Culinary Arts"</p>
<p>Yea my school doesn't weight any honors or AP classes.</p>
<p>@ icierair - Well, if you plan on going into the culinary field...</p>
<p>Actually, a bit of diversity can be better than OMG AP SPAMMING! to adcoms, methinks. They get too many of the latter as it is.</p>
<p>We weight APs at my school, so lots of kids randomly take AP/college classes to raise their weighted GPA. Though they have bizarre rules for what classes get AP credit and what don't, so Inventive Problem Solving is AP but abstract algebra is honors...</p>
<p>but yeah, not weighting APs sucks too.</p>
<p>then take easy classes and get close to 100s in them... You UW GPA will probably rise</p>