Calulating GPA with AP classes in high school

[Anonymous]

How do you calculate your GPA if you have 2 AP classes and have a 4.0. Is the weighted grade above 4.0? Our high schooler is telling us that you can have up to a 5.0. Which I am unsure of how that is possible. Can someone help me with the math. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you calculate your GPA if you have 2 AP classes and have a 4.0. Is the weighted grade above 4.0? Our high schooler is telling us that you can have up to a 5.0. Which I am unsure of how that is possible. Can someone help me with the math. Thanks.

AP and Honors courses are on a 5.0 scale (A=5, B=4, C=3, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you calculate your GPA if you have 2 AP classes and have a 4.0. Is the weighted grade above 4.0? Our high schooler is telling us that you can have up to a 5.0. Which I am unsure of how that is possible. Can someone help me with the math. Thanks.

AP and Honors courses are on a 5.0 scale (A=5, B=4, C=3, etc.).[/quote

So, AP = honors with regards to GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you calculate your GPA if you have 2 AP classes and have a 4.0. Is the weighted grade above 4.0? Our high schooler is telling us that you can have up to a 5.0. Which I am unsure of how that is possible. Can someone help me with the math. Thanks.

AP and Honors courses are on a 5.0 scale (A=5, B=4, C=3, etc.).[/quote

So, AP = honors with regards to GPA?

Yes

[Anonymous]

You can not have a perfect 5.0 because PE is never weighted and most kids have an art or tech elective that might not be..but for most college focused kids it is a 5.0 scale.

[Anonymous]

I think it is hard to get a weighted GPA above 4.8 because many required classes like PE, art, as well as some tech and health classes are graded on a 4.0 scale

[Anonymous]

Everyone is supposed to be college ready in public school these days. If they are taking regular classes, it is no wonder they have to take remedial courses if they get to college.

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid they didn't give bonus points for AP or honors classes. Of course, there were a few kids who ended up fairly high in our class rank that never took a hard class but that was something colleges could sort out. The downside today is it incentivizes everyone to take these classes but not everyone should be in them. Consequently, the courses get dumbed down. I swear this is more of the everyone gets a trophy for showing up cult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid they didn't give bonus points for AP or honors classes. Of course, there were a few kids who ended up fairly high in our class rank that never took a hard class but that was something colleges could sort out. The downside today is it incentivizes everyone to take these classes but not everyone should be in them. Consequently, the courses get dumbed down. I swear this is more of the everyone gets a trophy for showing up cult.

I'm 48 and we got extra points for AP classes. And still, the colleges sorted it out. How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid they didn't give bonus points for AP or honors classes. Of course, there were a few kids who ended up fairly high in our class rank that never took a hard class but that was something colleges could sort out. The downside today is it incentivizes everyone to take these classes but not everyone should be in them. Consequently, the courses get dumbed down. I swear this is more of the everyone gets a trophy for showing up cult.

My neighbor's kid takes a lot of honors and AP courses but doesn't do well in them but his school continues to allow anyone to take them despite prior poor performance. Even his mother said he shouldn't be in them but the school wants to report high GPAs so tons of students take them even though they shouldn't be in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid they didn't give bonus points for AP or honors classes. Of course, there were a few kids who ended up fairly high in our class rank that never took a hard class but that was something colleges could sort out. The downside today is it incentivizes everyone to take these classes but not everyone should be in them. Consequently, the courses get dumbed down. I swear this is more of the everyone gets a trophy for showing up cult.

My neighbor's kid takes a lot of honors and AP courses but doesn't do well in them but his school continues to allow anyone to take them despite prior poor performance. Even his mother said he shouldn't be in them but the school wants to report high GPAs so tons of students take them even though they shouldn't be in them.

Word is that universities have a preference for students who took the most rigorous courses available, even with lower grades. The trick is where the 'line' is in terms of the gradeXrigor tradeoff and no one can really say (varies by university; judgment call of the admissions committee).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid they didn't give bonus points for AP or honors classes. Of course, there were a few kids who ended up fairly high in our class rank that never took a hard class but that was something colleges could sort out. The downside today is it incentivizes everyone to take these classes but not everyone should be in them. Consequently, the courses get dumbed down. I swear this is more of the everyone gets a trophy for showing up cult.

I'm 48 and we got extra points for AP classes. And still, the colleges sorted it out. How old are you?

Different school districts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid they didn't give bonus points for AP or honors classes. Of course, there were a few kids who ended up fairly high in our class rank that never took a hard class but that was something colleges could sort out. The downside today is it incentivizes everyone to take these classes but not everyone should be in them. Consequently, the courses get dumbed down. I swear this is more of the everyone gets a trophy for showing up cult.

I'm 48 and we got extra points for AP classes. And still, the colleges sorted it out. How old are you?

Different school districts?

Yeah, imagine that? People don’t all grow up in the same district.
I’m not the quoted poster, but I’m 53, and AP classes were not weighted. OTOH, we had plus and minus grades, and our gpa was calculated as a percentage of 100.

[Anonymous]

So in OP example what is the GPA. I have to admit, I don't really get it either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So in OP example what is the GPA. I have to admit, I don't really get it either.

It depends how many classes the DC had overall. But it would be a 5+5 for the APs, plus 4 x number of non AP/honors classes divided by total classes. If the DC had honors classes those count for 5 points as well.

5 AP/honors and 2 non AP/honors would be:

5x5=25
2x4=8

(25+8)/7=4.71