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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Weighted GPA is meaningless to colleges[/b].

Do you think they are that stupid, and if you do, why would you want to send your kid to a place run by idiots? [/quote]

Talk about a totally ill-informed, sweeping generalization. They mean a TON to many colleges you numbskull.[/quote]

How?  Our APS HS [u]only[/u] weights AP/IB classes and doesn't offer those to Freshman.  An A- and an A+ are both a 4.0.  There is nothing higher w/o the AP/IB boost.  Another APS school does offer APs to Freshman.  My friend's DC is in a private school that does offer APs, but doesn't weight them.  Then, I see numbers from MoCo schools where even an honors class gets weight.  There is no way to compare between the schools unless taking the UW or recalculating them.

As an APS parent, the only reason I can come up with removing the MS grades is if enough families make that choice that it makes my DC's weighted GPA look lower in comparison even though [u]every single grade is an A[/u].  The kid who dropped MS grades wasn't a better student.  [/quote]

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