How is unweighted GPA calculated at your school?

[Anonymous]

4.0 (96 and up)
3.8 (90 and up)
3.5 (85 and up)
3.2 (80 and up)

dont know the rest.

private, everything "accelerated", no APs, no weighted GPA. some classes like art are only a half credit class so it's in GPA but at half the value.

famously deflated, but apparently colleges know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our private school is
93-100 A - 4.0
90-92 A- - 3.7
87-89 B+ 3.3
83-86 B - 3.0
80 - 82 B- - 2.7
77-79 C+ - 2.3
etc.

.5 for honors added and 1.0 for AP
All classes are added in unless they are P/F

Our NYC private grades the same, except only core academic classes are included. Not PE.

[Anonymous]

^^^ Also no APs at our school, only Advanced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^ Also no APs at our school, only Advanced.

Which is the way ALL schools should be.
I'm cool with challenging kids but why do high school kids have to take college level classes? It's a huge jump from middle school and means that it's a race to accumulate as many APs as possible.
Most don't even get you college credit.

Other than possible saving money, I do not see the value. (And yet my kid will graduate with 9 APs because that's what you gotta do to get into top schools)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Our weighted and unweighted GPAs include all classes.

Unweighted:
A+ (97 or better)=4.33
A (93-96)=4.0
A- (90-92)=3.67
B+ (87-89)=3.34
etc.

For honors or AP, add 0.67. So, an A+ in an AP class is a 5.0.

Interesting...Since honors get the same weight as APs I would presume there's not as much pressure to take AP's. How does this impact college acceptances? e.g., do kids with higher GPA's but maybe slightly fewer AP's have better results compared to kids who load up and have slightly lower GPAs?

I am a DP, but our school also weighs honors and AP classes the same. To answer your question, yes, students who load up on AP’s but have slightly lower GPA’s fare worse. Students know how to work the system to maximize their GPA while minimizing their risk.

I call BS on this as it runs counter to everything we are told about rigor being important in evaluating students.

You call BS on what? The fact that students choose courses that will give them an A instead of going for a more rigorous class and risking a B? My kid is still mulling over choices for next year, and will likely choose an Honors science class instead of the AP in order to avoid a teacher. Kids do this all the time. Take the A.

In fcps they say “take the rigor” if you are deciding between easy A in an honors class or B in an IB or AP class bc that B would be worth 4.0—and yeah the A is worth 4.5 but the AO can see you didn’t take the hard classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our private school is
93-100 A - 4.0
90-92 A- - 3.7
87-89 B+ 3.3
83-86 B - 3.0
80 - 82 B- - 2.7
77-79 C+ - 2.3
etc.

.5 for honors added and 1.0 for AP
All classes are added in unless they are P/F

Our NYC private grades the same, except only core academic classes are included. Not PE.

Similar private in California but no weight for honors and school doesn’t offer APs.