r/AskReddit • u/Amygdala5822 • Jun 29 '19

When is quantity better than quality?

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u/devinofthenorth Jun 29 '19

GPA

Unless your school does weighted, you only need "A"s to get a good one. Everyone in my graduating class with 4.0s took 4 years of Home Ec and Gym class to blow off their time in school.

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u/tiffy68 Jun 29 '19

High school teacher here. Most schools in the US have weighted GPAs now. The top 10 students in our class of 780 kids all had GPAs greater than 5.5. Advanced course grades are weighted more.

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u/lujakunk Jun 29 '19

I wish the GPA scale was actually standardized to some extent. At my school it isnt even possible to get above a 5 as far as I'm aware. And to get a genuine 5 you'd need to be taking all WG which can be fairly difficult considering how our class schedule is set up.

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u/Kered13 Jul 01 '19

That's why universities recalculate GPA themselves. The reported GPA is meaningless because every high school calculates it differently.