How do private schools weight honors classes? Quick Question, Please Look!

LSkaiWalk
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:30:57 +0000

So, this year I am doing pretty good. Im a Junior and so far getting 4 As, and 2 Bs, taking 1 AP and 1 Honors, both UC approved. So I will have a high upward trend and am doing a lot better than last year as you will soon see.

But last year I sucked and got 2Bs, 1 A, 2Cs. But I took all honors, with an advance math class (pre calc - which is mostly a jr level class, not a sophomore level class), which didn’t have any honors offered. 4 Honors classes, + pre calc. So it was a really hard year, probably harder than my junior year because I toned it down to get a good GPA and take classes I liked…

However, I found out as a sophomore that I only took 1 UC weighted class, and the other 3 honors were non weighted UC classes. So for sophomore year my UC GPA is 3.0. My unweighted is 2.8. But if you weight all my honors classes I would have about a 3.6-7ish about. That’s 6 more semesters of weighted and it really boosts my GPA. So, I was wondering how do private schools weight honors classes that are not approved by UCs? Do they have a different system of weighting? Cus if they weighted normal honors, not just UC approved, my weighted GPA will go way up. What’s the case with private school weighted GPAs? Could I have a better chance of going to privates?
Thanks.

It really sucked to find out my honors didn’t count. Some of my friends took normals and got As, while I took honors and worked way harder and mainly got Bs which didn’t count as weighted.