Why do some schools weight so much

<p>I am in the toughest classes- and at my highschool, a top public one in connecticut...i can only raise my gpa up .2 points (im basically in all honors- but only a sophmore) but even with APs next year its only abt .4--i see peopl with like 3.8 UW and 4.7 Weighted-- how does this make sense and do colleges consider/know abt gpa inflation/deflation</p>

<p>yes colleges notice. they will look at class rank if it is calculated or look at test scores. at my high school in texas, people get rejected from UT with a 98 average because they arent in the top 10%</p>

<p>I'm actually in the same HS as smcnair, but our school doesn't rank. Fortunately, it is a highly reputable HS.</p>

<p>My school inflates hugely. It sucks.</p>

<p>my school only weights .33 for honors and .43 for ap.
I think it should be more like .23 for honors and .43 for ap. There's a huge diff b/w honors and ap.</p>

<p>We get 5 pts instead of 4 for an A in an AP, 4 for a B, so on. We don't get any points for honors.</p>

<p>4.5 for an A in a honors class, 6 for an A in an AP</p>

<p>At our school, we get a point added onto our final HS GPA after 1st semester of senior year (when grades are frozen). SO if a kid had a 90 unweighted, and took 7 APs, his weighted GPA would be 97. There are no honors classes at my high school -- only "accelereated." Personally, they should be weighted, because they're more demnading than regents (average) classes. .2 for each acc class would be fine!</p>

<p>5.3 for an A+ in H/AP (they're weighted the same way, which is hugely unfair), 4.7 (?) for A+ in CP (maybe 4.3...)</p>

<p>my school doesn't weight or rank. we use a 4.0 scale. but, even though we all look uniformly scrubby compared to kids with a 12.7 gpa, we still get a ton of people into good colleges, so i believe colleges aren't stupid. they will see what's up regardless what your system is.</p>

<p>most colleges reweight your gpa, so what your highschool does is only relevent for rank</p>