GPA in context

JackLuzzy
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:48:29 +0000

I have to agree with these posts, especially the grade inflation. At some point last year, I had roughly a 135% in AP World History just because I went to a couple extra credit sessions. Ironically, I did awful on the actual AP test. I go to a public school, but they limit us to two AP classes a year(not including DC classes). I’m constantly seeing kids who have their entire schedules filled with only AP classes on this forum. Why would you do that to yourself? Don’t you want to have somewhat of a social life? High school isn’t only about increasing your GPA for college. If you’re getting straight A’s with only AP classes, most likely you do two things. One, you don’t do any sort of EC(at least you can’t be that heavily involved in one), or you’re being taught only towards the test. In AP World alone, we got about 4 hours of homework each night. It was ridiculous. Although I got an A in the class, it completely destroyed my weekend plans every single week. I have no idea how people can be taking 7 AP classes a year.