Anonymous
Post 01/23/2025 19:52     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:I read in another thread than an honors class has the same extra weight as an AP?


Yes
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2025 19:51     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
I read in another thread than an honors class has the same extra weight as an AP?
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2025 13:36     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Will check school's listings.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 19:52     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Correct. AL = post-AP.


Can you give example of what a post-AP course is?


OP here. I gave an example, Comp Programming 1 (which isn't technically post-AP.) Also Multivariate Calculus and Molecular Genetics etc.


Can't Comp Prog 1 be taken after Foundations of Computer Science and before AP CS Principles? The course doesn't indicate AL in its title.


It explains here it's AL (page 19) https://coursebulletin.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/publications/HSCourseBulletin2025.pdf Sure, it would be easier if these classes had "AL" in the title...
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 19:41     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:So basically the only course that the most advanced students will have that is unweighted in their HS GPA is PE — presuming they took algebra and the first two years of a language in MS.


Or many electives.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 19:40     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
So basically the only course that the most advanced students will have that is unweighted in their HS GPA is PE — presuming they took algebra and the first two years of a language in MS.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 19:39     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Correct. AL = post-AP.


Can you give example of what a post-AP course is?


OP here. I gave an example, Comp Programming 1 (which isn't technically post-AP.) Also Multivariate Calculus and Molecular Genetics etc.


Can't Comp Prog 1 be taken after Foundations of Computer Science and before AP CS Principles? The course doesn't indicate AL in its title.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 19:28     Subject: Re:Weighted GPA in HS
Spanish 5 is also AL.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 19:27     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:Correct. AL = post-AP.


AL is Advanced Level. Not necessarily post-AP. It just means classes that build off of an earlier class's knowledge. Honors, AP, AL, and IB classes are all weighted the same.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 18:57     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Correct. AL = post-AP.


Can you give example of what a post-AP course is?


OP here. I gave an example, Comp Programming 1 (which isn't technically post-AP.) Also Multivariate Calculus and Molecular Genetics etc.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 18:52     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Anonymous wrote:Correct. AL = post-AP.


Can you give example of what a post-AP course is?
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 18:51     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Also weighted GPA is meaningless because MCPS doesn't rank students and colleges have their own systems.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 18:50     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
Correct. AL = post-AP.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 18:46     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
What's AL??
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 18:35     Subject: Weighted GPA in HS
It seems like all AP, Honors, and AL classes get weighted the same for the weighted GPA, according to https://coursebulletin.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/Home/Introduction#gradingandreportinggpa I just want to check because I don't always trust MCPS. So in particular, Computer Programming 1, which is an AL course, gets the same weighting as AP CS Principles, correct?