<p>I’ve enjoyed reading this thread as our high school does not weight and often has Val/Sal who do not take a rigorous schedule. S is right on the border of top 5% and when he graduates he will have taken all APs offered along with 4 dual enrollment courses. As a freshman he was getting an A- in his first AP course and I asked him if he was okay with that. His response was I want to learn I don’t care about the grade. This desire lead his course selections even when we had to fight with GC because she felt his schedule was too hard. His GPA is 3.92. What I find interesting is his lowest grades have been in AP classes were he scored 5 on the AP test. Not sure if that will validate his GPA or not. </p>
<p>We also live in a little town that prints a picture of the top 10 every spring. Most of the kids think it is a joke. I notice that these lists almost always include all girls or a majority of girls. Not sure what that indicates but they also print pictures of the 30 Club including student who score over a 30 on the ACT and in that photo the breakdown is closer to 50/50.</p>