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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges get a sheet from the high schools that tells them things like the breakdown of grades over the senior class...like % of 4.5 % over 4.0 etc.  It tells them which schools have lots of grade inflation and which do not.  They know that MCPS is basically out of 5 with huge numbers of kids have over 4.0 and 4.5[/quote]
This isn’t true when [b]kids couldn’t possibly take every class as a highest possible of a 5[/b]
Again misinformation [/quote]
Oh, in MCPS, it’s entirely possible. My junior is on track to have only two unweighted classes in their entire HS career: freshman PE, and an entry-level music ensemble.

After that, their audition-only music ensemble was counted as “honors,” they took honors health over the summer, and used AP Computer Science Principles for the required tech credit. Everything else is either Honors, AP, or IB, which are all weighted equally at 5.0. Started junior year with a 4.85 weighted, will probably be 4.9 by the end of this year.

But it would actually be possible to go ever higher. Mine took 2 semesters of unweighted PE when only one was required, and there are a handful of honors options (like the audition-only ensembles) that satisfy the fine arts requirement. You could really have all but that one semester of PE weighted, if you planned carefully.

Hopefully, admissions officers will take a closer look at the transcript and see that my kid did take every AP and IB option their school offered and got As in them, and that their ridiculous weighted GPA isn’t only due to the MCPS honors-for-all bump. They also have a 3.97 unweighted, which should also help. But yeah, it’s ridiculous. [/quote]

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