when does non-top10% decision come out?

ag54
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:40:50 +0000

At our hs, you get a gpa boost, therefore a rank boost for 4 ap/honors classes a semester, so it does help. Some highschools don’t use a weighted system for rank though, so in those cases I guess it would help to not take the harder courses. The other side of that is that you do get hours by taking AP. My older son went to UF with 27 hours and now is classified as a junior and didn’t have to take stuff like govt., American history, freshman English, Calc.,etc. That’s a good thing!

re: the rank boost - at s’s hs in order to be in the top 1/4, the grade point is over 4.0, so even if you have gotten a’s in all academic courses, you would not be in the top 1/4. the top 10% kids don’t have more than one or two b’s with the most difficult curriculum. the val’s have all a’s, all ap/honors. it’s ridiculously competitive.