HS grade trend: up, down or steady?

mathmom
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:13:07 +0000

Older son got A’s of one sort or another from the start. He went from an A- to an A+ senior year in English when he decided to do one of the English electives instead of honors or AP. Our weighting is so light, I think that ended up as a plus for him. He took a full load of AP courses and always did very well in them. I’d say grades were steady course work got more demanding.

Younger son got B’s in everything but history freshman year. His grades got better over the years (except for Latin which got worse.) Like his older brother he opted to have fun in English senior year with similar results. Getting a 99 or whatever it was in English was definitely good for his GPA even though it was unweighted! He mostly got A’s in his AP Courses except the AP Calc BC and AP Physics C senior year. I think he had high B’s in those courses, at least by the end of the year, they may have been a tad higher when colleges were looking at them. He didn’t take Latin senior year. Grades got better, course work more demanding.