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<p>Only if you also assume that they took exactly the same classes, no more and no less. In my son’s HS you are required to take three classes of PE (which could be waived if you were in a HS sport), health, a practical class (cooking, programing, accounting, etc.) and an “Intro to HS” class (graded P/F). Honors/AP/IB classes gave you +1 to your GPA, so theoretically you could get a 5.0, but with the required classes that was not usually possible. One year a student graduated with a 4.95, but she was an athlete (which waived the PE requirements), took health online (making it P/F) and her one non-Honors practical class. That took some serious planning.</p>
<p>My son waived out of one PE class and took health online. But he also started a second foreign language in HS (Latin) which was non-Honors for the first year and he was in a choir for four years, his senior year he was in two. He graduated with an UW 4.0 and a weighted GPA of 4.70. He was just within the top 5% when he applied to colleges and just outside when he graduated. There were at least 25 spots between him and the Val, but, like GraniteStateMom’s son, he wouldn’t have had it any other way. I was a little concerned that he wouldn’t be in the top 5% when he was applying, but I’m sure that the GC marked the box for “most difficult class schedule”.</p>