What is the topmost weighted GPA in your high school

[Anonymous]

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 ?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Are there any honors PE classes? I think everything else can be out of 5 so I assume it is pretty close to a 5 for kids/families who obsess over GPA

[Anonymous]

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.

Glad you both are so curious to know these things. Are you ashamed of giving the reasons you want to know this. I venture to guess the highest weighted GPA is close to 5.0 (since there are a few required courses with weight of 4.0 for the letter grade "A"). The percent of students with 4.0 unweighted GPA varies by the year between 95.97% and 98.89%. This is because, although we at MCPS are blessed with truly outstanding students, I must admit that we do encounter some variation in the abilities of student population from year to year. But I must say with great satisfaction that MCPS administrators and teachers do an outstanding job of being flexible in delivering education to the specific needs of students of each entering year. This magnificent effort, year in and year out, is what keeps the range so narrow of percent of students graduating with unweighted GPAs.

Finally, if you are unhappy with your DCs school as to how it is treating you and your DC, who should be treated as Most Valuable Customers no less for your gracing of that said school is what is enabling the administrators and teachers to not only earn a living but also experience the joy of life's fulfillment of a sense of accomplishment that only comes from educating your DC, then the doors of MCPS schools are wide open to you and your DC. MCPS will feel their mission accomplished if you and your DC decide that your DC should grace your choice of MCPS school to educate your DC so that your DC will be among 95.97% to 98.89% of graduating seniors with an unweighted GPA of 4.0

We and our DCs will be thrilled to have the great fortune of getting to know you and your DC should you decide our particular MCPS school for your DC to grace.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I consider over a 4.5 a high GPA weighted.

[Anonymous]

Go look in Naviance.

[Anonymous]

my kid was 4.7-something. friends with 4.8-something. magnet kids

[Anonymous]

Current theoretical max: 4.85 - 3 years math and FL in middle school, 7 classes in high school. Algebra, FL1, FL2, Art, PE only non-honors. 34 credits total.

You can squeak that up to 4.94 if you don't put middle school Algebra, FL1, FL2 on HS transcript.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go look in Naviance.

Can you get this out of Naviance. Per-school scattergrams are a biased sample of the population. Something else is needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my kid was 4.7-something. friends with 4.8-something. magnet kids

+1

Same, Blair magnet kid, weighted GPA 4.88.

Received a Maryland Governor’s award for being in the top 5% of the class, if that tells you anything. (It was the only award, there was no award for e.g. top 1%, 2%, etc.)

[Anonymous]

^^^ https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2013/article-ged/section-7-207/

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I consider over a 4.5 a high GPA weighted.

So 3.6 unweighted? That isn’t too high. PE is the only non-Honors course most take. Why does MCPS give a full point bump for non-remedial courses?

[Anonymous]

I don't think the HS level classes in MS are weighted, right? FL, Alg 1, Geom, even if they're magnet (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Then there's PE, possibly Health if taken online or summer (harder to get honors section), art/music (only highest music ensembles are honors). But, I think that's about it (for a high flier).