Anonymous
Post 01/27/2025 14:36     Subject: How Hard Is It To Get Straight A's At Gonzaga?

My son has been challenged academically, especially in English which is not his forte. All As all 4 years (so far).

My oldest got some Bs along the way at Gonzaga but is a straight A student in college and says college was easier than Gonzaga was for him.

All 5s on his AP exams as well, so they clearly prepared him well. He was also a presidential merit scholar there.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2025 10:41     Subject: Re:How Hard Is It To Get Straight A's At Gonzaga?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:check out Gonzaga high pass rates for all of their AP's. It's a published statistic somewhere but for example AP Lit has 96% 4s and 5s - and every AP teacher said over 92% of their students score 4's and 5's. This is much more impressive to me than GPA.


+1

With the published National AP exam results showing only 13% of AP Lit test takers scored a 5 and you have 96% at GZ that says something. For all AP subject tests--the number of 4s-5s on each are 9-20% on average and GZ has 92% of their students scoring 4-5s across subjects.


And all students are required to take the AP exam or they will fail the AP course.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2025 10:41     Subject: Re:How Hard Is It To Get Straight A's At Gonzaga?

Anonymous wrote:check out Gonzaga high pass rates for all of their AP's. It's a published statistic somewhere but for example AP Lit has 96% 4s and 5s - and every AP teacher said over 92% of their students score 4's and 5's. This is much more impressive to me than GPA.


+1

With the published National AP exam results showing only 13% of AP Lit test takers scored a 5 and you have 96% at GZ that says something. For all AP subject tests--the number of 4s-5s on each are 9-20% on average and GZ has 92% of their students scoring 4-5s across subjects.