My schools different, we even have a 5 point GPA system for people who take honors, I dont. One very weird school. But in most of my classes it is the same, homework is about 50% or more of the grade, I get by on doing all the class work and getting good test grades.Miller wrote:
GPA is broken down as follows. Every A= four points, B's are 3, C's are 2, a D is one, and F's are 0. Add up the total. Mine for example is 4+4+4+4+4+4+3=27. Then divide by the number of classes you have. 27/7=3.86.
I concur with commie about homework. In my spanish class it's worth 50% of the grade. I just learned the subject of the day, why should I be expected to understand a different language overnight? It pisses me off. My other classes focus more on tests.
I'm not in honors this year, I didn't care enough last year to try to get good grades. Otherwise I think we do have a 5 point scale. I think that every AP class you have an A in is worth 5 points. Maybe each other grade does accordingly in AP?Commie Killer wrote:
My schools different, we even have a 5 point GPA system for people who take honors, I dont. One very weird school. But in most of my classes it is the same, homework is about 50% or more of the grade, I get by on doing all the class work and getting good test grades.Miller wrote:
GPA is broken down as follows. Every A= four points, B's are 3, C's are 2, a D is one, and F's are 0. Add up the total. Mine for example is 4+4+4+4+4+4+3=27. Then divide by the number of classes you have. 27/7=3.86.
I concur with commie about homework. In my spanish class it's worth 50% of the grade. I just learned the subject of the day, why should I be expected to understand a different language overnight? It pisses me off. My other classes focus more on tests.
Korea is much worse. There, an elementary student does extra curricular activities until 11 P.M., and has absolutely no free time during the summer, due to the fact that Korean parents care nothing but good grades. So, nowdays, Korean students , at least the urban one are all very weak. If a Korean midleschooler chucks a basketball, he or she can only chuck it up to 5 1/2 meters or so. Good thing I am in U.S.A.
I dont know, this is my first year at the high school.Miller wrote:
I'm not in honors this year, I didn't care enough last year to try to get good grades. Otherwise I think we do have a 5 point scale. I think that every AP class you have an A in is worth 5 points. Maybe each other grade does accordingly in AP?Commie Killer wrote:
My schools different, we even have a 5 point GPA system for people who take honors, I dont. One very weird school. But in most of my classes it is the same, homework is about 50% or more of the grade, I get by on doing all the class work and getting good test grades.Miller wrote:
GPA is broken down as follows. Every A= four points, B's are 3, C's are 2, a D is one, and F's are 0. Add up the total. Mine for example is 4+4+4+4+4+4+3=27. Then divide by the number of classes you have. 27/7=3.86.
I concur with commie about homework. In my spanish class it's worth 50% of the grade. I just learned the subject of the day, why should I be expected to understand a different language overnight? It pisses me off. My other classes focus more on tests.
I play baseball and basket ball (2 hours after school isnt to bad(btw, baseball went 13-1 ))Miller wrote:
I'm only a freshman so no worries, yet. I'm pissed about it because of why it's a 3.86. My Spanish grade was 89.47... Half a percent from 4.0. Damnit... It doesn't help at all when I'm trying to get into the Military Academy and I don't play sports. I play in two bands at school, but those aren't as valued as a sport is sadly... Clubs will help me for a military academy. Hopefully I'm setting myself up nicely to get a good school.trippy982 wrote:
3.86 is awesome and you still can't get anywhere with it? They must took into account grade inflation which renders your 3.86 to a 3.75 (2000 standard when I graduated.) And even with a 3.75 back in 2000, you could get into some nice schools. I guess times are tougher these days.Miller wrote:
I'm in clubs. Two actually. Entourage (it's a bando club), and the Teen Republicans. I'm thinking about joining JSA (junior statesmen of America).
As for GPA. It does suck a little. My 3.86 isn't getting me much anywhere at all yet. It shows I don't have straight A's but very close to. Next year, I am taking higher classes though. Honors Geometry, Honors Composition Literature II, and AP Bio. I tried to get into AP World History, but the teacher of it saw those three other classes and thought I was taking too many high classes... the fuck?
Imagine after college graduation and getting a job with no past work experiance and fresh out of school and adapting to a whole new game that you never played. And the game you've been playing (going to school) no longer applies. Not going to get easier..
You think getting that 89% is bad? I got a 91% in English(and kept me from 4.0), and here it's a 92% for an A and the private school (desmet) I might go to next year, a 94% is an A
Not to mention that if you fail (not that I could even if I tried) but you automatically have to go to summer school because our school requires 24 credits to graduate instead of the 20 or whatever.
And now my English grade is really good be me German grade is killing me, I have like an 89, so it's like impossible for me to get it up to an A, because I never learn anything in that class, we've seriously watched movies for the last 2 weeks... lol.
And You say that your friends join Extra curricular activities even if they don't like them? I think it would sound even better on your college app if you say that you were the creator of a club that you do like, I don't know about at your school, but all you need here is a sponsor and an ok of the office admin. Just a suggestion.
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i agree with number 2 big time!
number 2?tgust5 wrote:
i agree with number 2 big time!
Yeah, I agree... but GPA isn't everything... they like to see that you pushed yourself and didn't take easy classes and that's why you have a 4.0
Right now I have a 4.0 unweighted and a 4.1ish weighted GPA. I've taken AP chemistry (the hardest AP class every according to everyone I've talked to) and AP US History, which wasn't terribly easy. Next year I'll be taking AP Biology, Calculus and psychology; along with a full year of anatomy so it'll be a sucky senior year... but colleges like that too. I'm taking the ACT this weekend and I have a 1960 on the SAT...
I've held down a part time job at an eye clinic since freshman year, I'm in the National Honor Society, I played football for Two years, I've refereed youth football for 3 years and I'm now volunteering for 4 hours a week at a local hospital.
You have to do so much stuff outside of school, GPA and SAT scores mean a lot but you can't get in with those alone
Right now I have a 4.0 unweighted and a 4.1ish weighted GPA. I've taken AP chemistry (the hardest AP class every according to everyone I've talked to) and AP US History, which wasn't terribly easy. Next year I'll be taking AP Biology, Calculus and psychology; along with a full year of anatomy so it'll be a sucky senior year... but colleges like that too. I'm taking the ACT this weekend and I have a 1960 on the SAT...
I've held down a part time job at an eye clinic since freshman year, I'm in the National Honor Society, I played football for Two years, I've refereed youth football for 3 years and I'm now volunteering for 4 hours a week at a local hospital.
You have to do so much stuff outside of school, GPA and SAT scores mean a lot but you can't get in with those alone
I'm doing community service over the summer, and I've got a job right now, but it's just a summer Job. I plan on working at Quick-Trip(gas station) after the summers over.
You took AP chemistry in 11th grade? Our school is like changing everything around, like... the sophomores now are taking biology, while next year we have to take chemistry and its weird
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT ANDDDD CHECK MY MYSPACE?
You took AP chemistry in 11th grade? Our school is like changing everything around, like... the sophomores now are taking biology, while next year we have to take chemistry and its weird
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT ANDDDD CHECK MY MYSPACE?
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School IS weird now that I think about it. You just get used to it after 12-14 years I guess. Dare I say it, stryyker has made some good points in an organized, coherent topic. I noticed #3 when I took my college visit and noticed how many drunken idiots attended such a prestigious school. How much more money would be available without the retards who get into college? Lowering the standards is not an acceptable method to resolve the problem of widespread stupidity. Get the people who aren't at school to learn out so we can get an education and move on with our lives.
What fucked up district did you go to?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I've been to AP classes here and there. Wasn't really that different from the regular thing, and some of them were leftist nests with pillows tossed all over the floor in lieu of desks.
As for GPA, the funny part is mine will look really impressive. I got straight 3.8s for three years, but both semesters this year I've set myself up with the easiest classes (gym ftw) aside from my two APs so I've got over a 4 last semester and this one I should have straight As. Since I won't be applying for college until next fall semester, it'll look like I never had senioritis, but the truth is far from it.
Extra curricular activities don't make you smarter, they show the University that you take initiative and that you're a well-rounded person.
You are competing with other students when applying to colleges. The best Universities want the best students.
Also, weighted high school GPAs aren't set in stone. Universities pick out relevant classes you've taken and re-calculate your GPA (i.e. a University is not going to care about your 'A' in gym class).
I don't understand why you feel deceived. Did you honestly think you only had to do well on your SAT to get into a reputable University?
You are competing with other students when applying to colleges. The best Universities want the best students.
Also, weighted high school GPAs aren't set in stone. Universities pick out relevant classes you've taken and re-calculate your GPA (i.e. a University is not going to care about your 'A' in gym class).
I don't understand why you feel deceived. Did you honestly think you only had to do well on your SAT to get into a reputable University?
I hate the school systems for several reasons.
-Biase towards females (at least in my experience).
-Lack of physical activity, recess was degraded, removed, and lunch was well... lunch sucked in High School when they started reducing it a half hour to get there, get food, eat, and get to the next class.
-Too much pressure to do things I don't like.
-Recently read in Reader's Digest that American Public education dropped to 19th in the World.
-The money is spread unfairly so those in a good school do well, but those in a bad school have to work their asses off. They are still provided the free education but the teachers are not the same quality and the adminstration is not the same.
-Schools in the South are generally far behind because of repercussions from the Civil War and the reconstruction era following it.
But here is the funny thing. I applied to three 4 year universities (part of a deal with my parents so I could at least sign the papers to enlist at 17) and I didn't care about my grades because I was going straight in the Corps. Probably a 2.8 or so GPA. I played football, wrestled and ran cross country for a year. Never volunteered, community service, clubs, etc. And I was accepted into all three universities: University of Auburn (Alabama), University of Nevada ~ Reno, and a Texas DIII school for football. I scored a 1260 on the orginal SAT, not a bad score but certainly not a good one. How'd I not get a regection letter. Long story short I had to go to school for a bit.
-Biase towards females (at least in my experience).
-Lack of physical activity, recess was degraded, removed, and lunch was well... lunch sucked in High School when they started reducing it a half hour to get there, get food, eat, and get to the next class.
-Too much pressure to do things I don't like.
-Recently read in Reader's Digest that American Public education dropped to 19th in the World.
-The money is spread unfairly so those in a good school do well, but those in a bad school have to work their asses off. They are still provided the free education but the teachers are not the same quality and the adminstration is not the same.
-Schools in the South are generally far behind because of repercussions from the Civil War and the reconstruction era following it.
But here is the funny thing. I applied to three 4 year universities (part of a deal with my parents so I could at least sign the papers to enlist at 17) and I didn't care about my grades because I was going straight in the Corps. Probably a 2.8 or so GPA. I played football, wrestled and ran cross country for a year. Never volunteered, community service, clubs, etc. And I was accepted into all three universities: University of Auburn (Alabama), University of Nevada ~ Reno, and a Texas DIII school for football. I scored a 1260 on the orginal SAT, not a bad score but certainly not a good one. How'd I not get a regection letter. Long story short I had to go to school for a bit.
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And? If you want in, go and do some adult education in physics.stryyker wrote:
They willingly throw out applicants with real life experience over that Asian kid that did physics in sophomore year (no offense Asians).
I agree with the extra curricular stuff - that is gay. It isn't fair on the students, as those who like doing them will enjoy themselves throughout high school, and those who don't won't actually have time for themselves - and thus probably waste other time to be able to do something for themselves.
So yeah, in some respects, gay.
-konfusion
So yeah, in some respects, gay.
-konfusion
Are you sure it wasn't because you wrote....stryyker wrote:
I've been denied to countless schools across this nation because of my grades.
"Dear Harvard, I want to come to your school because Yale and Princeton are both gay"
j/k
Just adopt the school system what we have here in Finland. 9 years of mandatory school and then when you are 15 you can choose from two different schools: the school what gets you to university and then the another where you get straight into the job where you want (not to jobs what need university training), they booth take 3 years. Generally pupils hate this school system and it really separates good from the worse but it is proved to be one of the best of the world and the good pupils love it. The funny thing is that our school system is adopted from DDR...
Dance dance revolution?Jussimies wrote:
Just adopt the school system what we have here in Finland. 9 years of mandatory school and then when you are 15 you can choose from two different schools: the school what gets you to university and then the another where you get straight into the job where you want (not to jobs what need university training), they booth take 3 years. Generally pupils hate this school system and it really separates good from the worse but it is proved to be one of the best of the world and the good pupils love it. The funny thing is that our school system is adopted from DDR...
Deutsche Demokratische Republik, which was, ironically, East Germany and not nearly as democratic as the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Lawls Deutsch.lavadisk wrote:
Dance dance revolution?Jussimies wrote:
Just adopt the school system what we have here in Finland. 9 years of mandatory school and then when you are 15 you can choose from two different schools: the school what gets you to university and then the another where you get straight into the job where you want (not to jobs what need university training), they booth take 3 years. Generally pupils hate this school system and it really separates good from the worse but it is proved to be one of the best of the world and the good pupils love it. The funny thing is that our school system is adopted from DDR...
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Ah.
The school system is all about control and breaking down each individual into little sheeps. Think about it, you have to:
-Wake up in the wee morning to brush your teeth, shower, etc before catching the 6:00AM school bus (some schools start as early as 7:00AM)
-8 hours of classes
-only 1 hour of lunch break
-hours of homework
-extra cirricular activites that can add up to an additional 4 hours a day
-hall supervisors as you can't walk through certain halls during class hours
-ID checks at doorway (some schools)
-asking the freaking teacher everytime you have to go to the bathroom (and the teacher has full authority to deny you that option)
-punishment for being late and not on schedule for class
-marks against you for being late on assignments
-mandatory school prep rallys (some school, and wtf is that all about?)
-bullys, druggies, cheaters, drama queens, teen brats, rich snobs, gangsta wannabes, hormone induced jocks, hormone inbalanced psycho teenagers, and weird nerds all in 1 building
Highschool = hell in my book. At least in the real world I never had to ask someone if I had to go to the bathroom. Seriously, that's rediculous.
-Wake up in the wee morning to brush your teeth, shower, etc before catching the 6:00AM school bus (some schools start as early as 7:00AM)
-8 hours of classes
-only 1 hour of lunch break
-hours of homework
-extra cirricular activites that can add up to an additional 4 hours a day
-hall supervisors as you can't walk through certain halls during class hours
-ID checks at doorway (some schools)
-asking the freaking teacher everytime you have to go to the bathroom (and the teacher has full authority to deny you that option)
-punishment for being late and not on schedule for class
-marks against you for being late on assignments
-mandatory school prep rallys (some school, and wtf is that all about?)
-bullys, druggies, cheaters, drama queens, teen brats, rich snobs, gangsta wannabes, hormone induced jocks, hormone inbalanced psycho teenagers, and weird nerds all in 1 building
Highschool = hell in my book. At least in the real world I never had to ask someone if I had to go to the bathroom. Seriously, that's rediculous.
Well, I actually don't mind school too much. Even know it's really boring and takes up a lot of your time it helps people learn. I just do it. Its a lot easier to just do something you don't like.
But obviously I do wish there were some things different (as I'm sure everyone else does)
Two things that really get on my nerves is the security guards, they act like nazis just because they can, and how the teachers always bitch about their pay and the school systems, Its like, you get along working only a half a year compared to a full year for everyone else.
But obviously I do wish there were some things different (as I'm sure everyone else does)
Two things that really get on my nerves is the security guards, they act like nazis just because they can, and how the teachers always bitch about their pay and the school systems, Its like, you get along working only a half a year compared to a full year for everyone else.
I'd love to see American Schools adopt like a German Tract system or something.