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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the difference between honors and advanced level? How are they weighted?[/quote]

Kidding aside, colleges laugh at this and just exclude it from their GPA calculations.[/quote]
So colleges do their own calculations on applicants' GPA?  [/quote]

Yes, for example, I've heard UC Berkeley doesn't even look at 9th grade grades, and most will completely ignore non-academic courses.[/quote]

Also, most don't give extra weight to honors and only recognize AP or IB classes for additional weight.[/quote]

What about the classes that are tagged as “advanced level” in the course bulletin linked on this thread? All the Blair magnet courses are “advanced level” - are you saying that they are weighted the same as a non advanced class? How does this work? What about Spanish 4 (“advanced level”) vs Spanish 4 hons (honors)?[/quote]

The course bulletin says, "To determine WGPA (weighted GPA), an additional quality point will be added to grades of A, B, and C in all Honors, AL, and AP courses only." So if it has the "AL" designation, it will be weighted.[/quote]

This is for MCPS' internal GPA calculations that colleges will ignore.[/quote]

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