High School Grades

[jimmy no nose 0]

Having just gone through a change of colleges after 2 years I had to get my old high school to send out a copy of my transcript again. They asked me what information I wanted on it in terms of GPA and class rank. So I decided to ask what they were since I really had no idea. It turns out my regular GPA was a 2.7 but my "weighted QPA" was a 3.0. With this 3.0 I some how was ranked 311/438 people in my high school class. I decided that just having it say I had a 3.0 would make it sound much better than letting them know I was in the bottom 25% of my class. I'm still trying to figure out how 3/4 of the class did better than a solid B average. I was wondering if this was a common thing, so I'm kind of interested in seeing how some other people around here ranked in terms of the QPA vs. Class rank thing.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

I'll wait til someone dumber than me posts theirs, but mine is LOW

[Hank Kingsley 0]

As a sophomore right now my weighted GPA is a 4.57 and I'm 3rd in the class.

[Guest T®ITEC]

My GPA's around 2.5, and it's only so low because I skipped school all the time.

 

AND I'm an idiot.

[CanadianChick 0]

3.81. I think it was something like top 25%. Pretty good since last term, I only tried in Math, cause it's my only grade 12 course right now. Homework and studying's overrated, especially in grade 11. Grade 12 is the only one that counts.

 

SS, how can you have better than a 4.0? I always thought that was the highest GPA you could have. It's the highest in my school...

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Come on, someone stupid needs to say theirs.

[jimmy no nose 0]

Well the way it worked in my school was that if you took an honors class and A would be worth 4.5, a B worth 3.5, then the C is still only worth 2.0. AP classes would have an A worth 5.0, a B worth 4.0, and a C was worth 2.0 still. A bunch of my friends would get Cs in AP classes while I was getting Cs in the academic version and getting the same credit for it. I think some neighboring districts had honors worth 5.0 and AP worth 5.5.

[CanadianChick 0]

Well the way it worked in my school was that if you took an honors class and A would be worth 4.5, a B worth 3.5, then the C is still only worth 2.0. AP classes would have an A worth 5.0, a B worth 4.0, and a C was worth 2.0 still. A bunch of my friends would get Cs in AP classes while I was getting Cs in the academic version and getting the same credit for it.

What? Shit, I wish my school was like that. Then again, my cheap ass school only have 2 AP courses (Art History, which I'm currently taking as a two-year course, and AP Calculus), and no honor courses. Stupid, stupid school.

[teke184 0]

3.05 in HS, they didn't release class rank for my class because it was a 90 student graduating class at a private HS and at least 18 students were National Merit recongnized scholars, either special mention, semifinalist, or finalists.

 

Because of the relative few people in my class, the unofficial #5 guy was a math genius with a perfect SAT score who did his undergrad at Harvard and is in grad school at MIT right now.

 

I don't know about you, but when a guy like that is only #5 (or, roughly, barely in the top 10% of the class), it's pretty fucked up.

 

 

 

 

By contrast, my college GPA was a 3.6 and I graduated with honors.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Well the way it worked in my school was that if you took an honors class and A would be worth 4.5, a B worth 3.5, then the C is still only worth 2.0.  AP classes would have an A worth 5.0, a B worth 4.0, and a C was worth 2.0 still.  A bunch of my friends would get Cs in AP classes while I was getting Cs in the academic version and getting the same credit for it.

What? Shit, I wish my school was like that. Then again, my cheap ass school only have 2 AP courses (Art History, which I'm currently taking as a two-year course, and AP Calculus), and no honor courses. Stupid, stupid school.

Yeah, my school did the same thing.

 

And as someone with a SAT score in the low 900s, do you all think I would remember my GPA?

 

I do remember that I got on the honor roll one quarter of my freshman year. I also should have been on it one quarter of my junior year but my cunt English teacher gave me a B, even though I only got one B grade (and it was a high B, too) with the rest being A's -- I'm still trying to figure that one out.

 

My school district was a pretty yuppie one, so I'm sure I was ranked near the bottom, which would have been pretty good if compared to other districts in the area. I was in that group that could have done better but didn't care -- you know, that group just above those kids that go to the "retard room" in order to take tests. I think the highlight of my high schooling was in my 11th grade Horticulture class where we got COLORING BOOKS...

[TSA09 0]

I think my GPA was 3.5 and I was 327 out of 876.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

My school district was a pretty yuppie one, so I'm sure I was ranked near the bottom, which would have been pretty good if compared to other districts in the area. I was in that group that could have done better but didn't care -- you know, that group just above those kids that go to the "retard room" in order to take tests. I think the highlight of my high schooling was in my 11th grade Horticulture class where we got COLORING BOOKS...

Since no one will admit being stupid (those who don't post that is) I'll just say the only tiem I ever got A's was in Weight Lifting class. For the obvious reasons.

 

Everything else was C's or less so the highest GPA I'd have would be a 2.0 or so, but I never saved my report cards. I do know my school was full of preps and I was in the bottom 20% in the ranks.

[Guest Skironox]

I had around a 2.9 and was like 241 out of 500.

 

I was just another slacker.

[Guest stardust]

I had a 5.1 GPA and was 8th out of 146 (I think--I can't remember the exact number since we had so many drop-outs). The GPA's on a five-point scale, though, since my high school was weird like that, so basically it's like having a 4.2 or so (Honors and AP classes were given a 1.1 multiplier, so if I had say an 89 in my AP Chem class that would have been multiplied by 1.1 to give me a 97.9).

[lomasmoney 0]

3.8 Adjusted GPA 22 out of 199. I would have been in the top ten had it not been for that damn C- i got in CAD. 11th Grade year

[lomasmoney 0]

Homework and studying's overrated, especially in grade 11. Grade 12 is the only one that counts.

Actually most colleges don't really look at your 12th grade year, since the admissions process starts at the beginning of the year, so 11th grade is actually more important

[Damaramu 0]

Oh I had a 3.8 GPA and was ranked like 67 out of 528.

Now I'm in college and have a 2.4.......weird how that works.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Oh I had a 3.8 GPA and was ranked like 67 out of 528.

Now I'm in college and have a 2.4.......weird how that works.

True.

 

When I went to college, aside from my first semester, I never got lower than a 3.5...

[the max 0]

Total middle of the pack.

 

like 211 out of 450 in my senior year, mostly because I skipped so much.

[CanadianChick 0]

Homework and studying's overrated, especially in grade 11. Grade 12 is the only one that counts.

Actually most colleges don't really look at your 12th grade year, since the admissions process starts at the beginning of the year, so 11th grade is actually more important

Well, up here, apparently, universities just care if you pass the grade 11 courses. Unless my councillers lie, which could very much be so.

[jimmy no nose 0]

I think I'd probably be a lot higher than that 3.0 if I had perfected my method earlier on in my high school career. I never actually did any work at my house, but my grades kept going up each semester because I was always perfecting my method of doing no work at all in the classes I'm good in and instead using that time for homework from my bad classes. I couldn't make it work too well in 9th grade and ended up with like a 2.3, 10th grade I was improving with about a 2.8, 11th grade I was getting real good with a 3.3, then senior year I mastered it with a 3.6, including the high honor roll(just means you have more As than Bs and nothing else) the second semester.

[HarleyQuinn 0]

3.0, I'm in the top 30% or something despite our high school not having ranked classes. My class has 333 students so I'm roughly at 100 out of 333

[Internet Warfare 0]

Blah I have potential. I just dont try in school. I'm trying right now though and I;d say I'm on my way to passing every class.

[Internet Warfare 0]

huh, oh something like 1.8 or something.

[The Ill One 0]

Muha. My report card I just got says I should prolly show up and try more. I got a 2.7 average but this quarter got a 1.6. Heh. Eh, it's just my laziness, really, and it doesn't bug me that I'm fucking myself over. Wish it did.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

Homework and studying's overrated, especially in grade 11. Grade 12 is the only one that counts.

Actually most colleges don't really look at your 12th grade year, since the admissions process starts at the beginning of the year, so 11th grade is actually more important

Well, up here, apparently, universities just care if you pass the grade 11 courses. Unless my councillers lie, which could very much be so.

It you're getting a B average, you'll get into most universities in Canada. Definately UBC and SFU, since a lot more spaces have opened up due to the tuition increases.

 

Getting higher than that is only useful if you want to get early entrance into a department like Comp Sci or Engineering.

[Nevermortal 0]

Don't remember my GPA, but my average was a C+.

 

I was ranked 150/312. Right in the middle.

[CanadianChick 0]

Homework and studying's overrated, especially in grade 11. Grade 12 is the only one that counts.

Actually most colleges don't really look at your 12th grade year, since the admissions process starts at the beginning of the year, so 11th grade is actually more important

Well, up here, apparently, universities just care if you pass the grade 11 courses. Unless my councillers lie, which could very much be so.

It you're getting a B average, you'll get into most universities in Canada. Definately UBC and SFU, since a lot more spaces have opened up due to the tuition increases.

 

Getting higher than that is only useful if you want to get early entrance into a department like Comp Sci or Engineering.

Are you fucking serious? Everyone over here keeps saying it's next to impossible to get into SFU and UBC now. The recommended average in the science department is something like 85%. I think I may be going somewhere else; like Manitoba or Rhode Island. Maybe then I could get on the swim team because that is next to impossible to do with UBC and SFU too.

[Mole 0]

2.57 GPA and ranked 40/60.

 

I was just a lazy and never did my homework.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I was a purely average student. We had some whacked out 12 point scale at my school, and I'm not even going to attempt to translate it to a normal one. It worked out to a B-, which combined with a totally decent SAT score, and my ruthless schedule, got me into college until I went broke.