What is the topmost weighted GPA in your high school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

Why? If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

If your kid isn't already in MCPS, then send him/her there and reap all the benefits you listed above. Then you will be a happy camper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

We will soon be goi g through the college admissions process and it would be really nice to know this number. I know mcps got rid of class rank but it is difficult to assess college chances without an approximation of the percentile rank given the gpa.

Each school's college profile provides the percent of students in various weighted GPA ranges. I know my kid was in the top 8%, which was as detailed as it got for the highest GPAs (above 4.5 maybe, I can't recall). I can't recall if that profile was on the website or was provided at one of the college counseling info sessions at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

Why? If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

No curved grades, no participation credit, no extra credit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

We will soon be goi g through the college admissions process and it would be really nice to know this number. I know mcps got rid of class rank but it is difficult to assess college chances without an approximation of the percentile rank given the gpa.

Each school's college profile provides the percent of students in various weighted GPA ranges. I know my kid was in the top 8%, which was as detailed as it got for the highest GPAs (above 4.5 maybe, I can't recall). I can't recall if that profile was on the website or was provided at one of the college counseling info sessions at the school.

Yes, you need to search (or ask) for your high school's latest academic profile. You can find out the percentage of students with GPA's over 4.51. At Whitman, this is a high percentage. At DC's school, it's only 6%.

[Anonymous]

Here is BCC's academic profile, Class of 2018:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/bcchs/counseling/BCCHS%20FINAL%20School%20Profile%20and%20IB%20Profile%202018.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is BCC's academic profile, Class of 2018:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/bcchs/counseling/BCCHS%20FINAL%20School%20Profile%20and%20IB%20Profile%202018.pdf

Thanks for the helpful data w/o the complaining snark

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

Why? If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

No curved grades, no participation credit, no extra credit

Grading on a curve typically means the median is a C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

Why? If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

No curved grades, no participation credit, no extra credit

Grading on a curve typically means the median is a C.

Grading on a curve typically means giving a test that is hard enough that everyone's grade goes up once the curve is applied. The PP is right MCPS does not allow curved grades or extra credit. The flip side, is if a test is defective, e.g. turns out to test a concept that was never presented, there's no way to correct for that during grading--the median may well be lower than a C. So actually, when curved grading is forbidden, tests need to be written to be easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

Why? If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

No curved grades, no participation credit, no extra credit

Grading on a curve typically means the median is a C.

Grading on a curve typically means giving a test that is hard enough that everyone's grade goes up once the curve is applied. The PP is right MCPS does not allow curved grades or extra credit. The flip side, is if a test is defective, e.g. turns out to test a concept that was never presented, there's no way to correct for that during grading--the median may well be lower than a C. So actually, when curved grading is forbidden, tests need to be written to be easier.

When I was in engineering school several decades ago, most exams were graded on a curve such that the mean was a C and higher or lower grades were based on the SD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is BCC's academic profile, Class of 2018:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/bcchs/counseling/BCCHS%20FINAL%20School%20Profile%20and%20IB%20Profile%202018.pdf

This shows that 46% of BCC students achieved a 4.0 or higher. Ridiculous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.

Why? If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

No curved grades, no participation credit, no extra credit

Grading on a curve typically means the median is a C.

Grading on a curve typically means giving a test that is hard enough that everyone's grade goes up once the curve is applied. The PP is right MCPS does not allow curved grades or extra credit. The flip side, is if a test is defective, e.g. turns out to test a concept that was never presented, there's no way to correct for that during grading--the median may well be lower than a C. So actually, when curved grading is forbidden, tests need to be written to be easier.

When I was in engineering school several decades ago, most exams were graded on a curve such that the mean was a C and higher or lower grades were based on the SD.

Nifty. MCPS does not grade on a curve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is BCC's academic profile, Class of 2018:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/bcchs/counseling/BCCHS%20FINAL%20School%20Profile%20and%20IB%20Profile%202018.pdf

This shows that 46% of BCC students achieved a 4.0 or higher. Ridiculous!

46% achieved a weighted GPA of 4.0 or higher. What's ridiculous about that? It's out of 4.8 or 4.9! Really competitive colleges are much more interested in the kids who have a 4.5 or higher. I would also be very curious about the percentage of kids who have a higher than 3.8 unweighted GPA, but we don't have that data.

[Anonymous]

I am new to this (kid is headed to MS next year so we haven't had to deal with this yet). Do schools give kids both the weighted and unweighted GPA? Do they report both to colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am new to this (kid is headed to MS next year so we haven't had to deal with this yet). Do schools give kids both the weighted and unweighted GPA? Do they report both to colleges?

Yes, both appear on the transcript. The transcript is also sent with a class profile, like the one posted for BCC. How colleges choose to use/not use the calculated GPA is of course a different issue, many just recalculate to there own specifications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am new to this (kid is headed to MS next year so we haven't had to deal with this yet). Do schools give kids both the weighted and unweighted GPA? Do they report both to colleges?

Yes, both appear on the transcript. The transcript is also sent with a class profile, like the one posted for BCC. How colleges choose to use/not use the calculated GPA is of course a different issue, many just recalculate to there own specifications.

I'm hoping that colleges can see that my kid is in the top 10% in his school, even if his high school doesn't officially rank.