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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is your high schooler doing with GPA?  Did it vary from year to year?
What is considered a "good" GPA, weighted and unweighted?
[b]How many kids are taking all Honors/AP and have a 4.0 unweighted GPA?[/b]
I know FCPS includes electives and PE in the GPA, but what do you think?  Are these elective non-language courses important?[/quote]

[b]I have a peripheral question: what does the bolded sentence mean exactly? If you're getting extra points for Honors and AP, how do you calculate your unweighted GPA? 
I've also heard that colleges unweight your classes and then recalculate your GPA. [/b]Does that mean they're effectively not giving you bonus points for taking honors or AP? What is the point, then? I'd understand if you were learning harder stuff, but I have one child who took Algebra 1 Honors this year while the other took regular Algebra 1. Beyond some "extension units" that introduced a few additional topics, the only difference between the Honors class and the regular one is that there is more work. Not more depth, but more work.[/quote]

You calculate your unweighted GPA the old-fashioned way by taking away the extra points given for honors, AP or IB classes  :  A is 4 points, B is 3 and so on.

Many colleges, particularly elite ones, unweight your GPA for comparative purposes to create a level playing since some schools don't have advanced courses or offer very limited ones.   The colleges still consider the rigor of the course you're taking as well, so what they're basically asking is did you do as well as you could in the most advanced courses available to you.  Even though an AP course gives 4 points for a B, for example, you're still doing B work, not A work, which says something about how you meet challenges.  
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Yes, but taking only regular level classes shows that you're not up for a challenge, and would rather coast along. That may look worse to a college than a few Bs. [/quote]

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