GPA for top 5% and 10% awards hs grads?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School profile is useless because 20% are in the top tier in the profile.

You mean 40%

Let’s remember this when someone tries to claim public school grades aren’t inflated.

The top tier 3.5-4.0 unweighted, so it's more that the profile is meaninglessly nonspecific.
There's nothing wrong with students choosing classes where they get As and Bs.

[Anonymous]

It would probably be better to only do unweighted gpa and then just do a count of the number of AP, IB, and honors classes.

[Anonymous]

My HS 100 years ago was public and sent second highest amount to IVY schools.

We did grading 0-100 all classes with no added points for AP classes.

I think colleges like you saw a real GPA.

And basically impossible to get perfect grades. Even Gym, Drivers Ed, Health, cooking class all graded.

They should go back to that

[Anonymous]

What about the original question. Does anyone know what GPA top 5% and 10% had at WJ this year? Or any other high school?
(Not asking about grade inflation or policy changes or whether it matters for college)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/rmhs/23-24-rmhs-school-profile.pdf

Did you read it?
40% of students are in the top level in that document.

Yes, I did. It’s a good example of why MCPS doesn’t rank. It’s meaningless when kids take all Hon/AP/IB (weight=+1) and have 4.0 unweighted GPA. As far as the award that OP is referencing from the state, I think a school has to apply for that award for their students. RM didn’t the year my DC graduated, and they had 4.0 and the highest possible WGPA, along with 30-40 other kids (guessing from Naviance.)

Ultimately, it’s a meaningless distinction at many of the high schools.

It just means that today a 4.5 is comparable to a 3.5 back before all this nonsense started. Well not quite I mean only 5% of my HS had >3.5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume these are based on weighted GPAs? If your kid placed in top 5 or 10 percent, what HS and what was their approx weighted gpa for which cutoff (e.g., school name, 4.72, top 10%)? Or does anyone know the actual cutoffs?

My DC won the top 5% award a couple weeks ago, along with about 30 other kids, so 5% of their class of 600ish. It was based on weighted GPA I believe but I don’t know the cutoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume these are based on weighted GPAs? If your kid placed in top 5 or 10 percent, what HS and what was their approx weighted gpa for which cutoff (e.g., school name, 4.72, top 10%)? Or does anyone know the actual cutoffs?

My DC won the top 5% award a couple weeks ago, along with about 30 other kids, so 5% of their class of 600ish. It was based on weighted GPA I believe but I don’t know the cutoff.

What was their gpa? Which school?