<p>It isn’t that way here. The classes are weighted so taking the easier classes doesn’t work. In fact the GPA’s earned by the top 10 each year are virtually impossible to obtain unless a student takes a lot of AP and honors classes. </p>
<p>Senior year D took 4 AP classes, one other academic class (required) and 2 electives. She chose to take the electives knowing that no matter how well she did in those classes those two grades would pull her GPA down because they were non weighted electives. They also both happened to fall at the end of the school day so she could have chosen to drop them and have early release every day. She did not do that. Most of the other students in the top 10 also took non-weighted electives. They were not gaming the system.</p>
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<p>And you know this for a fact? How?</p>
<p>Some of the top students in D’s class were not the ones who were thought of as “smart”.
Many people were surprised at D, perhaps a blonde dancer who likes to joke and rarely talks about studying (just does it) does not fit their definition of an “intellectual”.</p>