Anonymous
11/19/2025 16:28
Subject: Why does MCPS give the same weighting to Honors and AP classes?
Why is Health an honors class. My kid says that most of the time there is nothing to do and he uses that class to finish hw for other classes
Anonymous
11/19/2025 14:09
Subject: Why does MCPS give the same weighting to Honors and AP classes?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does it actually matter at the end of the day how MCPS weights the classes? Colleges admissions would treat Honors Biology/English vs AP Biology/English differently regardless, right?
Maybe we shouldn't weight any classes, so the max anyone's GPA can be is 4.0 -- taking advanced classes still has the benefit of boosting your profile for colleges.
Yes, they will recalculate the GPA according to their own standard formula.
Do they take into account whether a course is an honors course or an "honors"-for-all course? Or just ignore honors and only pay attention to IP or AB?