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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Several kids in MCPS will get WGPA's like that...if they have many honors or AP classes plus middle school classes that have high school credit...Like French 6 or Algebra. If the child is in one of the science or math magnets Wheaton Biomedical, Blair math program etc. Then yes they can get a high weighted GPA because most of their classes are honors or AP plus they have the extra middle school component classes. Very few, but a few.[/quote]

I have a child at Blair and have not seen a 4.89 on Naviance. [/quote]

It’s almost impossible. We have a couple get close at our W school but none that high. I’d say it’s a troll with Naviance access. [/quote]

4.8 PHS.  Beginning of Senior year. All As. 5 HS credits earned in MS. 2 were honors.  These are kids who took AP world lang in 10th grade. Do the Math. In the SMCS pathway, these scores add up, especially if the kid is doing HS level credits in MS.

In fact, the HS level credits at MS actually pulls down the wGPA because there are 3 or 4 credits that are unweighted. If you just take the credits earned during HS ...the wGPA shoots up because the unweighted credits in MS gets dropped.  Essentially, these kids have credits from 7 years of school instead of 4.  And without the unweighted foundational courses in MS, they would not have been able to do the APs and post-APs early in their HS career. [/quote]

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