DCPS High School GPA, Walls

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

Like I said before, if you don’t like grades there are alternative high schools that will provide a narrative instead.

You could also use the same grades in the same classes to compute an unweighted academic GPA. (No bumps and no PE.) Here that would be 3.35. Does that make you feel better?

Instead of getting upset, most people simply distinguish between weighted and unweighted GPA.

I am not sure why you equated my post about grade inflation to me being upset. Grades don’t mean anything at this point. And for the poster who mentioned honors classes and AP classes, those grades are inflated without the grade bump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

That’s exactly what AOs do, at least at selective institutions. They look at rigor and grades, and they understand regional and individual school contexts. That’s their job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

That’s exactly what AOs do, at least at selective institutions. They look at rigor and grades, and they understand regional and individual school contexts. That’s their job.

Not every DCPS graduate is headed to a selective institution. It’s appropriate for the schools to compute GPA in a way that’s useful for less selective colleges and universities as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

That’s exactly what AOs do, at least at selective institutions. They look at rigor and grades, and they understand regional and individual school contexts. That’s their job.

Not every DCPS graduate is headed to a selective institution. It’s appropriate for the schools to compute GPA in a way that’s useful for less selective colleges and universities as well.

Even those colleges know how GPAs work. DCPS schools send a school report explaining such things. Colleges can handle diverse grading systems and are able to parse out which students to accept. Even ‘less selective’ colleges.

[Anonymous]

On the Walls Website - in the academics section there is a link to the handbook.
In the handbook it describes the policy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

There are no class ranks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great post PP and also a great demonstration of how crazy grade inflation is.

Not following you? GPA has been calculated like this forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

There are no class ranks

Are you sure? Class rank is printed on my kid’s DCPS high school transcript.

[Anonymous]

This is how my high school GPA was calculated and I graduated high school in 1996.

Also, doesn’t grade inflation refer to the practice of making it easy to get good grades, such that everyone gets an A, whereas a less inflated situation would have more Bs in the class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

There are no class ranks

Are you sure? Class rank is printed on my kid’s DCPS high school transcript.

Does your child go to Walls?
Per the Walls handbook - School Without Walls will no longer use class rank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are Pre AP scored

I’m wondering the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts.

This is an extremely conventional GPA formula. Maybe your school doesn’t believe in grades, but pretty much every American high school and college that gives grades uses these equations or something very similar to compute GPA.

I am one of the PPs and it’s still nuts. You get an A-, B and an A (in a half credit course) and get a 4.08 gpa from that? That is such blatant grade inflation. What is the point of grades? This is ridiculous.

So you’re okay with a kid cruising to a A in regular physics and your kid busting their butt to get a B in AP Physics, and the kid who took regular ends up with a higher GPA and higher class rank? Seriously? You’re counting on some admissions officers to read through every transcript and delineating which courses were honors, AP and regular?

There are no class ranks

Are you sure? Class rank is printed on my kid’s DCPS high school transcript.

Does your child go to Walls?
Per the Walls handbook - School Without Walls will no longer use class rank.

Jackson-Reed also professes not to use class rank, but it’s still on the transcript. According to administration, it’s required by DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are Pre AP scored

I’m wondering the same.

DCPS treats Pre APs like Honors courses (+0.5).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are Pre AP scored

I’m wondering the same.

DCPS treats Pre APs like Honors courses (+0.5).

No, APs are plus 1.0.

On level/honors/AP
A 93% to 100% 4.0 4.5 5.0
A- 90% to 92% 3.7 4.2 4.7
B+ 87% to 89% 3.3 3.8 4.3
B 83% to 86% 3.0 3.5 4.0
B- 80% to 82% 2.7 3.2 3.7
C+ 77% to 79% 2.3 2.8 3.3
C 73% to 76% 2.0 2.5 3.0
C- 70% to 72% 1.7 2.2 2.7
D+ 67% to 69% 1.3 1.8 2.3
D 64% to 66% 1.0 1.5 2.0
F 63%

Why do people post authoritative things on DCUM that are clearly wrong?