I'm not exactly sure how I didn't get in.. Confused/Rant

Viper999
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:55:38 +0000

SimpleLife, First of all thank you for your post. I realize that there are some very large and competitive high schools that have 4.0s or higher in the top 10 percent. Although, when I referred to large high schools I may have been a little vague on what I meant. Specifically, I was speaking about a large high school about 10 miles from my high school that had a graduating class of around 600. I attended their graduation (because I have some friends that went there) and the valedictorian had a 5.0 gpa (weighted AP) but the salutatorian only had a 4.2 gpa (weighted AP). The top 10 percent would being around 60 students, if the top student has a 5.0 followed by a 4.2. I am predicting a significant gpa gap because of the difference from just the first to the second student. If the gpa dropped 0.8 points from 1 to 2. Then I bet the bottom thirty of the sixty are around the 3.4-3.6 area. It is this type of situation I was referring to. But this may be an exception…I’m sure it is hard to get into the top 10 percent of most well known competitive 5A high schools. I am fairly sure that my high school was much more competitive than the high school 10 miles from me. I have also heard (only from personal opinions) that larger high schools generally have easier material and the majority of your grade in most classes comes from busy work or packet work. We had none of this except for in lower level or freshman/sophomore classes… Also, at my high school there was a large opportunity to take a lot of dual-credit college classes which are probably better able to prepare you for college than an AP class taught by your same math teacher. Does anyone know if AP is harder than dual-credit?

For the record: I was Blinn-Teamed for the Fall 2013 semester…
Thank you for setting that straight kldat1.