Weighting ACL and AP classes
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Re: Weighting ACL and AP classes
the AP classes where i am are weighted up 2 points, so its on a 6 point scale, and we do rank because of the TX top 10% law, that state colleges have to accept anyone in the top 10% of their class
so most of the people at my school in the top 10% have higher than 4.0 GPA
so most of the people at my school in the top 10% have higher than 4.0 GPA
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ok thats weird... because here CP is like a halfway point between honors and AP its almost just like AP except that its less rigorous and you cant get college credit
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Re: Weighting ACL and AP classes
My high school was in Wake County, NC. There, AP courses were worth up to 6 points, honors (advanced) courses were worth up to 5 points, and regular courses were worth up to 4 points.
The top students had better than 5.0 gpas by their senior year.
The top students had better than 5.0 gpas by their senior year.
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My school issues grades on a 100 point scale, does not weigh any courses, and does not rank students. Grade averages are done to the first decimal place. There is such a huge variation between levels of classes, class subjects, and teachers that class rankings and comparisons on "class difficulty" would be worthless. For example, we have classes that go one or two years beyond AP level, but it's not easy to say that multi-variate calculus should be worth the same as low-level computer graphics.
In addition, the students here with the highest grades are rarely the ones that are the smartest, since the high scorers tend to be the ones that a) take "easy" classes, b) find "easy" teachers, and c) learned to suck up and/or cheat (honor is a big problem here, IMHO).
In addition, the students here with the highest grades are rarely the ones that are the smartest, since the high scorers tend to be the ones that a) take "easy" classes, b) find "easy" teachers, and c) learned to suck up and/or cheat (honor is a big problem here, IMHO).
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at my school those with the highest grades are usually the ones that work the hardest, because of the ranking and gpa and etc. its hard to find easy teachers and most teachers don't accept suck ups
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I'm from a (not-very) small town in Pennsylvania called Reading, and I go to Exeter High School.
Our weightings are:
Normal = 1.00
Honors = 1.01
Accelerated = 1.05
AP = 1.05 (1.10 if you take the AP exam)
Our weightings are:
Normal = 1.00
Honors = 1.01
Accelerated = 1.05
AP = 1.05 (1.10 if you take the AP exam)
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That's barley anything for Honors.binary010101 wrote: Normal = 1.00
Honors = 1.01
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Re: Weighting ACL and AP classes
My high school weighted AP courses with a 5 point scale.
Normal courses (ACL included) were on the 4 point scale.
I actually forget what we did with Honors courses :\
I think it worked our pretty well. Our stage was filled with people who had actually taken the harder classes, even if they got marginally lower grades in them.
The competition for the top three spots was pretty crazy though, since they were separated by basically nonexistent amounts.
Normal courses (ACL included) were on the 4 point scale.
I actually forget what we did with Honors courses :\
I think it worked our pretty well. Our stage was filled with people who had actually taken the harder classes, even if they got marginally lower grades in them.
The competition for the top three spots was pretty crazy though, since they were separated by basically nonexistent amounts.
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Tell me about it.smartkid222 wrote:That's barley anything for Honors.binary010101 wrote: Normal = 1.00
Honors = 1.01
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that stinks, why do they bother weighting it
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