<p>FindAPlace - Congrats to your S! Nice that you know where he stands…lol. D’s school won’t release any information like that until the end of this year.</p>
<p>FindAPlace, I think that’s a good strategy. Let the HS’s grades count for the rank and let the EPGY courses stand on their own. Schools will like that he’s looking beyond what the HS has to offer and that he’s doing quite well with it.</p>
<p>FAP:</p>
<p>My theory is that 1 or 2 places in rank matter very little - the extra rigor of his program will stand out and no admin will care that little Sally Sue was ranked number 1 with her lightweight schedule. :)</p>
<p>^^ I think FAP was saying that the EPGY courses will be counted but weighted as REGULAR (or non-AP honors) classes, thus pulling down WGPA/class rank.</p>
<p>Keix:</p>
<p>You’re correct regarding WGPA, which affects rank ,and at our HS is based on academic weighted GPA. However, the class is from JHU CTY, not Stanford EPGY although they do offer it. I guess folks assumed EPGY since we’re in CA but S has been with CTY for summer classes, so he just continued on with the online math.</p>
<p>FWIW, he does get the “wow” factor from other students who know he’s doing it. And he gives back by tutoring, sometimes for no charge.</p>
<p>When calculating unweighted GPA, are you including just academics? Or also including fine arts, in-school sports, office assistants, and etc.? Our hs only counts academics. </p>
<p>I understand colleges do their own thing in deciding which and how to count grades. How do your picks calculate GPAs?</p>
<p>FAP, you know I had originally typed CTY and then switched it to EPGY because of geography…sorry!</p>
<p>MY HS counts all classes taken during the school year at that school, including fine arts and health/PE. No sports for credit; driver’s ed and TA are pass/fail. Outside academics can be placed on the transcript but will not be calculated into GPA.</p>
<p>So far I have a 4.0UW, so I haven’t worried about how colleges will see my grades (course selection is a different, anxiety-inducing issue); I’m not sure I want to try to figure out each individual policy, anyway!</p>
<p>We chose JHU-CTY over Stanford EPGY for summer enrichment classes for a variety of reasons: 1) Strong reference from a school board member. 2) More course selection. 3) Less expensive, although not greatly so. 4) More locations, including LMU so one year we saved $$ by opting for the commuter rather than on campus option. 5) Great online info and back office support for things such as progress reports (great for getting HS credits) and easy to interpret and obtain transcripts.</p>
<p>As for how our HS calculates GPA, I mentioned this a couple of pages back, namely every which way. But only academic weighted GPA counts for class rank, so excluded are things like PE/team sports, office assistant. Many, but not all, fine arts are included, obviously the ones that UC accepts for their fine art requirement.</p>
<p>Our school gives colleges both weighted and unweighted GPAs. They say they are for “academic” courses. From what I can tell that means they include orchestra and the special performing arts program courses, but don’t include health or PE. Office assistant? That’s a course?! :eek:</p>
<p>D’s school includes all classes when calculating the GPA. They don’t figure out a separate “academic” gpa at all.</p>
<p>And Keilexandra, what’s TA? And I’m a little confused about a course called “office assistant” as well, FindAPlace.</p>
<p>Our hs doesn’t include any of the fine arts, sports, assistants, techs, newspaper or yearbook. It stinks that fine arts and PE are state required for graduation but they aren’t included in the GPA. </p>
<p>We don’t have study hall and only juniors and seniors may opt for free periods. In a small school, often times kids can’t get a full schedule or don’t want one. That’s where office assistants, teacher assistants, lab assistants, and tech aides fit in.</p>
<p>^^ TA = teaching/lab assistant. Basically office assistant, except you’re assisting in a class instead of the office, hehe.</p>
<p>Thanks Keix. D’s school doesn’t offer classes like those - office assistant, teaching assistant. </p>
<p>Also, no credit/grades for sports, yearbook, newspaper, or anything like that - those are purely extracurricular. I was quite surprised to find out that those were courses in some schools and that kids received grades for writing on their school papers or working on the yearbook.</p>
<p>Our HS offers, through the county, a ROP (Regional Occupation Program.) Through this, students can get credit for things like fashion design, digital photography (but the regular photography is part of Fine Arts and is a UC approved fine arts required course … don’t ask me why one is and one isn’t!) and so forth. I think being an office assistant falls under here, for those students who may do this kind of work after HS.</p>
<p>I’ve never really delved that much into ROP since our S was on the college track. However, if the digital photography WAS a UC approved fine arts course, he might have taken this rather than the regular photo class (e.g. with b/w film, dark room.)</p>
<p>Yep, writing for the newspaper is part of a credited journalism class at our HS. I’m not sure about the Yearbook. To get the most out of these classes, the students will be working outside of class as well. They kind of have to, to get the job done.</p>
<p>Is there a specific time when the SAT scores come out on the designated dates?</p>
<p>^ March scores will come out April 7th, supposedly at 8am–but I know the January scores earlier came out around 6am.</p>
<p>A question - at schools where things like newspaper and yearbook are classes, are kids who are not in the classes allowed to participate on an EC basis? It just seems like a waste of a class period if you have to take journalism or yearbook every year if you want to work on the paper or yearbook.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. (That was probably a silly question)</p>