Weighted classes freshman year

Hey everyone!

I was wondering, how many people took weighted classes their freshman year? If so, which classes did you guys take? How well did you do in them? My school doesn’t allow freshman to take weighted classes for freshman, so I’m curious.

I took 2 Gifted and Talented classes (English and US Government), where an A is worth 6.0 for your weighted GPA as well as 3 Honors classes (Geometry, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology), where an A is worth 5.0 weighted.

Not to brag, but I got an A in all five of those classes because I worked hard and was overstepped in eighth grade for commitments and study habits. It boosted my class rank to 10 out of 235, I believe.

By weighted I’m assuming that you mean AP/Honors/IB

I took:
AP Human Geo
Honors Freshman English
Honors Biology
Honors Algebra II/Precalc
+two unweighted classes

I got A’s in all of them and I got a 5 on the AP Human Geo test.

Edit: As @JHUbal27 said, it took alot of hard work. I had at least a couple of hours of HW every day.
My class rank is 2/500 something

My school doesn’t do weighted grades, an A in AP Chem and an A in special ed Chem are equal. It’s a real pain when around 1/4 of the top decile has a schedule composed of nothing but fluff.

Really? I took…
AP Human Geo
Honors English I
Honors Biology
Honors Alg II
and 2 unweighted electives

Honors are weighted at 4.8ish and AP 5.3ish (we have a weird scale). I ended up with all A’s and very little homework that I would get done at school. I usually wouldn’t even open my bookbag at home. At my school, honors means very little. About 75% of my class probably took at least all honors for core classes (and we are talking about public school). I guess my school must be in the minority.

Honors Biology (C-, didn’t really understand nor care)
Honors World Cultures (B) (my school requires all incoming freshmen to take this so that a) every person has at least one weighted class on his or her transcript when he or she graduates, b) everyone has a weighted GPA, and c) introduce how future Honors/AP classes will be like.)

Honors is weighted .5 higher (4.5 for an A in honors compared to a 4.0 in academic) and AP is a 5.0. 5 points is added to your marking period, midterm and final grade for honors, 10 points is added the same way for AP.

My high school required us to take honors courses for all core courses (except foreign language). It was a STEM magnet school. This included honors English 9 (A), honors Bio (B+), and honors Algebra 2 (A). All honors courses are weighted .5 and AP/post-Ap courses are weighted 1/

Of course I just forgot like half to courses I have taken XD. Also took…
French C/C Honors (in between 2 and 3)
and another unweighted elective

My school you to do all honors/AP if you want to be in the IB program, I dont even know if I want to be in it anymore…

I took:
Honors Bio (B/C)
Honors English (A/B
Honors World Geography (A/B)
Accelerated Geometry ( Not weighted A/A)
+ 3 unweighted elective

Honors and AP are weighted the same I think (.2) to a 4.0 if you got all A’s, I don’t know how IB are weighted.
Lesson Learned: don’t overwhelm yourself and dont be lazy.

I took all honors Freshman year (so +.5 weighted GPA):

English 9 Honors
World History 2 Honors (you get to skip World 1)
Geometry Honors
Biology 1 Honors

Honors Algebra 2
Honors Spanish 2
Honors Bio
Honors English 9

I think I got an A- in Spanish and English, and a B+ in Algebra. Those were my worst grades in all of high school (graduated and took 10 APs). The work wasn’t bad, and most nights I probably had no homework. My algebra and spanish teachers were pretty bad though, and I think my school intentionally has the best teachers teach the highest level classes, which makes sense. My teachers seemed to get better throughout my high school career, especially in math, science, and social studies.

I’ll be a freshman next year and I signed up for and was approved for the following honors CORE courses:

Honors Biology
Honors American History I
Honors Communication Skills (pre-English 1, required)
Honors English I
Honors Math II
Honors Math III

All of my classes are honors, except for gym. My elective is not determined, but I signed up for Honors Personal Finance.

My schedule freshman year. I’m entering junior year.

Honors Biology
Honors Algebra II
Honors Geometry
Honors Spanish 2
Honors United State History I

Honors Freshman English

Edit: How I did? I got straight A-s except in Bio (A) and English (B+)

I took English Honors 1, Algebra 2 Trig Honors, and Chemistry Honors. Got As in all of them, except my school doesn’t do weighted rank so it doesn’t really boost my class rank.

English 1 Honors
Biology Honors
Algebra 2 Honors
World Cultural Geography Honors
All weighted at a 4.5 on a 6.0 scale
As far as rank I was probably around 100/150 freshman year. Since then I took more AP and got better grades so my current rank is 19 of 750

As a freshman I took

Honors World Cultures (got an A because I paid attention and did the work, unlike a lot of kids in the class)
Honors Algebra 1 (didn’t know there was an option to test into Geometry until too late, and I think that the review was a good thing considering I ended up with a B+ in the class)
Honors Biology (got an A but the teacher wasn’t a huge fan of me)
Honors English 9 (had to sit the final exam as I barely missed the cutoff for exemption. It’s also the reason I hate Charles Dickens with a passion, but that’s a story for another thread)

plus 3 unweighted classes and horrified gasps a study hall

I mean, I’m still in the top 10% of my class so I must have done something right.

I took

AP Music Theory (5)
Honors Physics
Honors Algebra 2
Honors Latin 2

The rest of my classes had no honors option.

How was it? Not too bad. Music Theory was hard because of my incredibly rigorous teacher, as was Algebra occasionally. Physics wasn’t too bad although I was terrible at it, and Latin was a joke. Around 2 or 3 hours of homework/night. Obviously, your mileage may vary.

I took no weighted classes freshman year. Actually, I took no weighted classes any year since my school did not weight classes.

Unfortunately my honors classes weren’t weighted and I took all Honors. We weren’t allowed to take AP classes (weighted) but even though I wish they were weighted, it was good preparation for AP and IB classes.

Human Geography is a “gateway to AP” class for freshmen and sophomores. That plus 3-5 Honors Classes would be the most rigorous schedule for freshmen in most cases.