<p>I always see people on these forums talking about their UW and W grades, and it gives me the impression that at most schools, GPAs are weighted.
No such thing at my school. An A earned by a student in regular bio is the same as an A earned by a student in honors or AP.</p>
<p>So someone clarify...ARE GPAs weighted at most schools? Anyone else whose school doesn't do that?</p>
<p>Yes, most schools do that.
For example, an A in Biology would be a 4.0
But an A in AP Biology would be a 5.0</p>
<p>At our school, it’s a 1.1 multiplier for honors, and 1.2 for AP.
A in honors and an A in AP are 4.4 and 4.8 respectively.</p>
<p>yeah, my school doesn’t weight GPAs or rank either. it’s kind of annoying because a lot of the valedictorian contenders have far easier courseloads than others do.</p>
<p>My school definitely does, or else, I’d be in regular classes!
It’s 1 point extra for AP/dual enrollment classes & 0.5 for regular.
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<p>zest21 - that is one of my gripes with the lack of weighted grades. the student government at my school talked to the academic dean about it because they were interested in knowing why grades aren’t weighted. he said that he wants “AP enrollment to stay at an appropriate level”. he doesn’t want kids taking APs just because they’re weighted. still it kinda sucks.</p>
<p>kids at my school who get good grades but don’t take hard classes are written off as “not smart” by the student body.</p>
<p>Well that’s a problem with your student body then. At my school, the kids who get better grades do tend to be seen as smarter, but we’re all aware that there are dumb kids with a 4.0 and very smart kids with a 3.2.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t weight GPAs. I’m kind of glad it doesn’t, because a B in an AP class shouldn’t necessarily be the same as an A in a regular class. Some AP classes are jokes and some general classes can be tougher. And, isn’t part of school knowing what you can handle? There won’t be weighted GPAs in college for taking grad classes. Our school usually just ends up with co/multi-valedictorians (anyone with a 4.0)</p>