Right but read the college counselor's post. APS's weighting doesn't matter to colleges. |
One college session explained how their school recalculated. They dropped all classes outside of the core 5 subjects. Then AB/DE got a 1 point boost and honors/intensified got a .5 boost. From MS, my kid brings two foreign language (honors only offered 1 year), 1 math (honors) and 1 history (no honors option). So, in theory, if 2 of those clases were dropped, they would help the GPA even with college recalculation. If your kid did enough foreign language in HS, no problem. The history credit can be replaced by certain AP scores and the math credit doesn't matter as long as there was another verified credit in HS (which there is for most). |
Not every school recalculates the same way. But I dont think any of them would use the school's weighting because schools weigh differently and not all schools offer the same types of classes. |
If school has a single valedictorian then would be only reason would even consider that and not for purposes of colleges. So many schools now do everyone is valedictorian so no reason to do for that either. If are trying to game for single valedictorian, remember is more than just dropping MS classes, should also be doing pass/fail for as many non-core classes to get the denominator lower and take as many full bump classes. Do think too much time on hands if doing this though. |
This is a post about Arlington. I've never heard of pass fail in APS. Does that exist here? |
I don’t believe this is true at all schools. You cant tell me that colleges that are getting 25,000+ applications are recalculating everyones grades. They have a cutoff and then more intensely review those over that hurdle. |
My kid dropped 7 high school classes that were taken in middle school. A whole year of extra classes makes an impact on GPA |
How much of an impact? We are looking at 4. How on earth did a kid take 7 HS credits in an Arl middle school? Usually it's 2 years foreign language, one World Geo and 1 or 2 math classes. |
They don’t do it by hand, there is software that does it automatically. |
There are CS classes: Intro CS, Game Design, Robotics My kid dropped 8 classes |
I have a senior at W -L, and that has not been his experience at all. I have been impressed how much the counselor has added to the process and her responsiveness. |
My kid is a junior, applying this fall, and 8th grade was mostly virtual. Took three classes that counted for high school (language, math, world history) but got terrible grades. Of course we are dropping them. |
What graduating class? Which school? That seems to matter. |
The only HS options in MS are math and world language. You need 4 math credits and 3 WL credits for an advanced diploma. Since we knew our child would have this easily from HS alone, we dropped all MS grades, including the A+ ones. Mathematically this is advantageous. |
No, there is also world geography, which kids take in 8th grade by default but counts as a HS credit. |