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Originally posted by: senseamp
I got 4.35 also in 3 years. Plus I had so many AP credits, I was able to skip a year in college too. The downside, I graduated college several months before I could legally drink Of course on the upside, between saved tuition and 2 years head start on career, I was a couple hundred K ahead.
Originally posted by: Inferno0032
Saying that anything above 4.0 is bullshit, is simply not totally correct. How is it fair that little Timmy takes 5 AP classes as a senior, and gets his ass worked off, gets B's in all his classes, and ends up with a 3.0, while Joe dumbfuck takes the "senior slide" and takes 4 PE classes and an "elective," gets all A's, and has a 4.0? It's not fair, simple as that.
Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Originally posted by: tfinch2
Originally posted by: Slew Foot
My High School gave you a 0.2 bonus to your GPA for every AP class you took. In that way you werent punished for taking extra non AP classes. I ended up with a 5.4 senior year, and a 4.74 overall.
Which is bullshit. In college, an A is an A, whether you earned it in Advanced Topics in Astrophysics or Introduction to Basketweaving. Sure one class is orders of magnitudes harder, but they still count the same toward your GPA.
Don't most colleges weight grades based on how many credit hours the class is?
Originally posted by: Inferno0032
Saying that anything above 4.0 is bullshit, is simply not totally correct. How is it fair that little Timmy takes 5 AP classes as a senior, and gets his ass worked off, gets B's in all his classes, and ends up with a 3.0, while Joe dumbfuck takes the "senior slide" and takes 4 PE classes and an "elective," gets all A's, and has a 4.0? It's not fair, simple as that.
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Originally posted by: Cooler
Also AP Classes are necessary harder then most classes it completely depends on who is teaching it.
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Cooler
Also AP Classes are necessary harder then most classes it completely depends on who is teaching it.
this is 100% true
all but 2 of my AP classes were really easy
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Originally posted by: JS80
College application gpa =/= school gpa
Ding ding ding. When you apply to any university they take your transcript and recalculate your GPA.
Originally posted by: Special K
Originally posted by: Inferno0032
Saying that anything above 4.0 is bullshit, is simply not totally correct. How is it fair that little Timmy takes 5 AP classes as a senior, and gets his ass worked off, gets B's in all his classes, and ends up with a 3.0, while Joe dumbfuck takes the "senior slide" and takes 4 PE classes and an "elective," gets all A's, and has a 4.0? It's not fair, simple as that.
It's the exact same thing in college. All courses are graded on the same scale, even though some are clearly more difficult than others. Hopefully this won't be as big of a problem if the college only ranks you against people in your program, and you include transcripts with job/grad school applications, so they can see what courses you actually took.
When I was applying to colleges, my #1 choice school said the first thing they looked at was rigor of high school curriculum - i.e. did you always take the most difficult version of a class if your school offered you a choice (i.e. regular history vs. AP history). This process helped weed out those who earned 4.0 GPAs by taking the easiest classes available.
Originally posted by: alkemyst
DAMN AP in my day meant you drove to the local college and took a freshman class for college credit.
Everything has been dumbed down today.
Originally posted by: alkemyst
DAMN AP in my day meant you drove to the local college and took a freshman class for college credit.
Everything has been dumbed down today.