Are PLTW courses weighted?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Almost everything is weighted except for PE.

False

DP

Not really. Pretty much everything is Honors now. So the PP is correct. Almost everything is weighted.

+1 Honors health.. what a joke. Both my kids went through it.

LOL yes. Honors Health is the biggest joke....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost everything is weighted except for PE.

False

DP

Not really. Pretty much everything is Honors now. So the PP is correct. Almost everything is weighted.

+1 Honors health.. what a joke. Both my kids went through it.

I think it's wonderful that they're reading the bar and expecting most of our young scholars!

clearly you have never looked through "honors" health. I think it's sad that your head is in the sand.

[Anonymous]

What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost everything is weighted except for PE.

False

DP

Not really. Pretty much everything is Honors now. So the PP is correct. Almost everything is weighted.

+1 Honors health.. what a joke. Both my kids went through it.

I think it's wonderful that they're reading the bar and expecting most of our young scholars!

clearly you have never looked through "honors" health. I think it's sad that your head is in the sand.

It's honors health which means it has more honor than non-honors health. It's elite health for the very best students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

They are weighted the same. An additional quality point is added to grades of A, B, and C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?

Yes, for example, I've heard UC Berkeley doesn't even look at 9th grade grades, and most will completely ignore non-academic courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?

Yes, for example, I've heard UC Berkeley doesn't even look at 9th grade grades, and most will completely ignore non-academic courses.

Also, most don't give extra weight to honors and only recognize AP or IB classes for additional weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?

Yes, for example, I've heard UC Berkeley doesn't even look at 9th grade grades, and most will completely ignore non-academic courses.

Also, most don't give extra weight to honors and only recognize AP or IB classes for additional weight.

What about the classes that are tagged as “advanced level” in the course bulletin linked on this thread? All the Blair magnet courses are “advanced level” - are you saying that they are weighted the same as a non advanced class? How does this work? What about Spanish 4 (“advanced level”) vs Spanish 4 hons (honors)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

Exclude what??? I’m not asking about health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

Exclude what??? I’m not asking about health.

It would depend on the school, and I'm mostly just guessing. However, non-academic courses like health or PE would probably not factor into the GPA calculation used by most colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?

Yes, for example, I've heard UC Berkeley doesn't even look at 9th grade grades, and most will completely ignore non-academic courses.

Also, most don't give extra weight to honors and only recognize AP or IB classes for additional weight.

What about the classes that are tagged as “advanced level” in the course bulletin linked on this thread? All the Blair magnet courses are “advanced level” - are you saying that they are weighted the same as a non advanced class? How does this work? What about Spanish 4 (“advanced level”) vs Spanish 4 hons (honors)?

They're likely treated the same. As to magnet courses, it may depend on the class. It would be easy to simply treat them all as AP level but not sure that's the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.

So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?

Yes, for example, I've heard UC Berkeley doesn't even look at 9th grade grades, and most will completely ignore non-academic courses.

Also, most don't give extra weight to honors and only recognize AP or IB classes for additional weight.

What about the classes that are tagged as “advanced level” in the course bulletin linked on this thread? All the Blair magnet courses are “advanced level” - are you saying that they are weighted the same as a non advanced class? How does this work? What about Spanish 4 (“advanced level”) vs Spanish 4 hons (honors)?

The course bulletin says, "To determine WGPA (weighted GPA), an additional quality point will be added to grades of A, B, and C in all Honors, AL, and AP courses only." So if it has the "AL" designation, it will be weighted.

[Anonymous]

Yes, they are weighted starting with Introduction to Engineering Design.