**GPA INCREASING CHANCES? PLEASE READ**

DrWama
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:40:13 +0000

Hi, me and my principal are on the verge of convincing the school board to do weighted grades. It has become a trend that students take the easiest class in order to secure the 4.0 GPA without having to take difficult classes. (No weight whatsoever for AP or Honors) What i’m asking you today is do colleges seriously consider weighted GPA as an accurate portrayal of rigor? Do they even seriously consider it? I would really like to have weighted GPA at our school because my class rank would significantly go up. Please tell me how your school does weight, as I need to present to the board what our formula would be. I was thinking this:
AP 1 Point Weight (A = 5 B = 4 C = 3)
Honors 0.5 or 0.7 Weight ( A = 4.5 B = 3.5 C = 2.5)

Please contribute, I know the brilliant minds on this forum can help!

DrWama