<p>I’m glad to hear that. My son’s school has a lot of AP teachers who feel that the bonus weighting is there to keep their students’ GPAs from falling too far, and have said so when we questioned grading (“Colleges would rather see a C in an AP course than an A in a regular course” etc., etc.). We sure don’t feel that weighted GPAs are a joke; they’re necessary to stay even with the students who don’t push themselves and still wind up over 3.9 because the basic courses are so easy.</p>
<p>I’ve learned enough about the different grading scales in different school systems to know that it’s not possible to compare GPAs from one system to another. So what’s even the sense of a table showing that xx% of the freshmen have a 3.75 and above, when a 3.5 in one county equals a 3.75 in another?</p>