probably not the right forum..but oh well

ak72889
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:32:00 +0000

at my school there is an arts center and the kids in it get honors/AP credit for all their mandatory credits, meaning things like gym class which the whole school needs to take in order to graduate…they just get an extra point on thier gpa for it. where is the logic in this? i have no idea. plus honors classes which are really easy, get the same weight as AP classes which are much more difficult in comparison. an A is 94-98.4 A+99-100 and you get another .5 weight if you get an A+. for kids in honors classes that do the work and the plenty of extra credit you can get an A+ easily. so basically every one but me in the top ten is in the arts center and have taken half the number of AP classes i took/am taking but have padded gpa’s. the system can be easily worked by the people at my school, but i moved into my state as a junior from a much fairer system and am very irritated by the way its done here. but at the same time the val or sal don’t really have a chance at the ivy league schools (b/c of SAT scores, # of AP’s, and they don’t care that much about learning…just grades). ahhhhh.

well thanks for letting me vent a little CC-ers. hopefully come April we can all not care about any of this stuff when we go to the places we want!:)