[HoO8MyRiCe]

I just wanted to express my gripes to everyone and complain that my school refuses to weight grades or provide honors classes. Even though I know that colleges deweight and then reweight grades to fit their admissions process, i find it stupid to not weight grades when class rank is important. most of the kids in the top 5% are there because they load up on easy 100's (ie, chorus, band, marching, jazz, etc.) and wow, your gpa really does suffer when u take alot of aps.

AHHH it makes me mad. anyone in the same shoes

[atalamarche10]

My school doesnt weight grades. Technical, college prep, honors, gifted, AP ... all the same thing.
However..the smart people end up on top anyway simply because they're.. smart!!
I think it is more important to learn more than get extremely good grades and not be prepared for college.

[josebiwasabi]

i'm not pleased with my state's policy on not weighting grades. likewise, i don't care about having an inflated gpa when it comes to colleges seeing them, because i know they'll readjust it according to their own scales. however, i do care about class rank. i beleive i am just BARELY out of the top decile (as in, less than 5 people away), only because there are kids who take 4 or 5 periods a day (out of a 6 period schedule) taking classes like PE, intro art, etc, while i'm taking 7 IB classes.

[flyaway]

wow that sucks =\
thats so unfair to ppl with AP's
but at least colleges do their own weighting? =D

[kuku]

Our valecdictorian isn't picked solely based on his or her grades.


Does class rank really matter? Wait... I guess you are right.

[astar]

i think my school may weight grades, but not a crazy extent like some of the schools around here *cough* public schools *cough*

we get a ".5" GPA boost, but even if i get an "A" I get .029 added to my quarter grade so i don't really get it.

public schools in my city give their brainy kids a .75 boost for "smart math" which sucks because i'm in "smart math" and i'm #11 behind people not in the "smart math" section and they are taking finite next year, which is an easy "A"

aargh