Do high schools still use UW GPAs?

orjr
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:04:26 +0000

My son’s school refuses to calculate weighted GPA and DOES NOT count weigted courses in class ranking. This means the kids who work incredibly hard and get the IB diploma, but have one or two B grades, are never the val or sal. The kids in the “top 5%” of the class are about half students who have not taken challenging course work. (there is no AP, only IB). This seems very unfair when putting down class rank on college apps.