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Whats with the weighted GPA's

If you take advanced placement classes or accelerated classes, you got extra point added to your grade point average. So if you get a 4.0 in these classes, depending on your school, you can end up with a final grade of 4.2.
 
I have a 4.0 weighted by taking 3 AP classes. Since AP ( Advanced Placement) are acknowledged as college credit ( if you pass the end of the year exam) they are weighted. I believe that the weighting of the grade is a good thing, as it is another plus to taking the harder classes. A lot of kids I know try to pick the easiest classes, however I strive to take the hardest classes (am taking 5 AP next year). My GPA may be lower than theirs, but I will have a much better work ethic, and a broader range of knowledge.
 
Impact, thats a really good idea.

my senior year, I took 6 AP classes, and got a 5.3 out of a possible 6. But, it showed me how hard college work is, and now in college, I have a 3.93 GPA. A good work ethic is needed, especially if you want to do some sort of engineering major.

- xyion
 
Intersting way of doing things. When we took advanced classes, or collage courses while we were in high school, they were noted in seperate documentaion.

How does weighting figure into collage? Are classes not mandatory per your degree anymore?
 
when I applied to college, i put both my weighted and unweighted. I'm sure my transcript had something about the AP classes, so it might have figured in. I also brought in a whole bunch of AP credit, so I got credit for the classes I took in high school.

- xyion
 
AP classes give ya a 5 instead of a 4. Since there are so many people taking AP classes, there are hundreds of people with > 4.0
 
If you can't get a 4.0 the normal way without weighted grades in AP classes, how do you expect to do it in college?

And likewise if you can't get the 4.0 in AP classes how exactly are you getting 4.0's in college? Does it get easier as you progress through school or something?
 
by taking the AP classes in high school, I learned just how hard I had to work to make it in college. Some of the stuff was actually review material (cal 1 and 2), so I knew most of it prior to coming in. I was so used to working hard in high school, that college wasnt THAT much of a surprise to me.

- xyion
 
Ive been going to college for 5 years and have masters, bach, and ass

Yeah, I've been going to college for 5 years too and have masters, bach, and a hairy ass.
 
It's a way to even the field a little between the people who take basket-weaving for four years in high school and get a 4.0 vs. the people who take the hard(AP) courses and apply themselves but may have more difficulty getting a 4.0.

It is also more of an encouragement for people to take the harder classes knowing that even if they get a B that their grade point average will not be lowered.

Basket-weaving - a very easy course in which just showing up for class will get you an A.
 
Wouldn't a college admissions officer see the AP classes and the basket weaving classes and be able to figure out which person worked harder? Not every high school (mine didn't, CO of 96) uses weighted GPA's, so I imagine that the transcript gives a weighted and unweighted GPA for colleges to look at. Seems like a way to boost the ego of students, not a way of making them look better to collges (as I don my flame suit).

My high school didn't do class ranks, and we had 2 valivictorians <sp>. The school system wanted to be politically correct and not say that any one student is better than another. Pure BS to me, but whatever.
 


<< Seems like a way to boost the ego of students, not a way of making them look better to collges (as I don my flame suit). >>


I agree.
 
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