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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is crazy. It isn't really college work, but a move toward some semblance of a national curriculum combined with an arms race to up gpas (which are weighted)[/quote]

Just to clarify, nobody is taking AP's to "up their GPAs" or because they "need a 4.6 GPA" like another pp said. Colleges only look at unweighted GPAs. Some colleges take your unweighted GPA and reweight it using their own proprietary weights, so that an A in Phys Es doesn't count as much as an A in Calc B/C. But public and private schools alike send unweighted GPAs on the transcripts they send to colleges. (Public schools may include the weighted GPA on the transcript, but colleges don't care.)

As PPs said, it's about demonstrating that you took the most rigorous classes classes available. Many kids also send AP test results of 4s or 5s with their college applications, even though sending the AP scores isn't necessary; they do its because it proves you did well in your AP classes. At top universities that don't give credit for AP classes, sending in your score with your application may be the only benefit you get.[/quote]

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