AP PreCalculus/Colleges weight when recalculating GPAs?

[Anonymous]

Ok I get it. Not a separate rule. I was only asking because I have read repeatedly that AP precalculus is considered a joke. That some colleges will not give it college credit despite the score. That it is just a money grab from the college board. Hence, my question whether it has been singled out given it is new.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I answered you above but you ignored me. No school is unweighting a single class. They:

- ignore freshman grades
- unweight everything
- remove non core classes

Etc. it is some method like the above but whatever it is, it is uniform. Meaning, they are not picking ONE class and saying for just this one we….

You are sure about that? They don't "unweight" Honors classes? better do some research.

Unweighting honors classes falls into exactly what I am saying: that IS a uniform rule and they could do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm familiar with one university's procedures. They recalculate GPAs based on core subjects, without any weights. Rigor is calculated separately. So AP Precalc wouldn't show up differently than regular or honors in terms of the GPA, but it would get extra consideration in terms of rigor.

Yes. similar.
The T20 we know does very similar: UW GPA for all core courses, plus a separate rigor score: points for highest level course taken that the school offers in that subject area, In otherwords APChem and APphysC score max science points, APES does not if either of the other are offered. APphys1 does not score max if APphysC is offered. APBC scores max unless there is a regular cohort taking Multivariable in that HS. And so on. there is a rigor score for each year then an overall rigor. It takes less than a minute for an AO to calculate based on the high school profile provided by HS as well as AOs keep data on prior years --they get to know different HS very well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok I get it. Not a separate rule. I was only asking because I have read repeatedly that AP precalculus is considered a joke. That some colleges will not give it college credit despite the score. That it is just a money grab from the college board. Hence, my question whether it has been singled out given it is new.

It is true it's just a money grab and that many colleges won't give credit for it because it's not actually a college level class. Same with CS principles, physics 1 (for stem majors), and several others. But that's different from whether there's a separate rule for weighting.