Our school doesn't do these anymore because it got too competitive. My friends as well as myself couldn't crack the 50th percentile with 3.4/4.0, and all the classes are unweighted so a kid who gets an A in basic math gets more recognition than if I were to get a B or C+ in honors math (has happened twice now).
Posts: 315 | Location: Rochester, NY | Registered: November 10, 2005
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I'm not exactly sure what our school does with percents and stuff but honors classes at our school are weighted so lets a say an A in a normal class in 4.0, and an A in an honors is like 4.3. Our schools may not have the same scale but there's kids in my school who can crack 4.4-4.5
Posts: 42 | Location: Darien, Il | Registered: November 02, 2006
Our school stopped doing it because it got too competitive too. Our scale goes all the way up to 5.3 if you have an A+ with all honors classes. I also have a 4.1 gpa. Last year as a freshman I had a 4.28 and was ranked 91/956.
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Posts: 393 | Location: Illinois | Registered: February 21, 2005
Yeah our school's pretty big. The freshman have even more than us! Other school's around us like Lockport and LicolnWay East have almost just as much. Lotta kids man.
"Man this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking...n just have fun." ~Benny Rodriguez~Sandlot
Posts: 393 | Location: Illinois | Registered: February 21, 2005
jeeze. our whole high school only has about 500 kids. It is also impossible to get any higher than a 4.0 in our school too. I'm in the top 1/4 somewhere with a 3.7. My class has like 150 people tops.
Posts: 14 | Location: Little Chute | Registered: January 07, 2007
I have a 4.25 for my first 3 semesters, but I'm only in the top 25 out of about 500. You can get a 5 for an A in an honors course, and a 6 for an A in an Advanced Placement course-but AP courses are available only for juniors and above.
Posts: 108 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: November 10, 2005
