The one thing I do NOT like about this system is that the so called “extra-curricular” activities, like athletics, band, orchestra, theater, etc.. are only 4.0 classes.
So, those that excel in sports or arts as well as academics can never compete with those that only take academic AP classes.
I think this punishes students who are the typical type A students who excel in their sport or art, and unjustly rewards the bookworms, who do not participate in any sport, art, or club.
When my kids were in high school (and I think when I was in HS, many years ago), you could get up to 5 points on the advanced placement type classes, so an A would get you 5.0, a B would be a 4.0 in that class, etc. And then the points would be weighted by some factor such as how many hours per week in that class, etc. But a person could only have a 5.0 GPA by having ONLY advanced placement classes through the 4 years of HS, which was impossible.
Maybe the article is referring to one semester’s GPA, not cumulative for all 4 years?
Why?
“Traditionally a 4.0 is considered a perfect grade point average, but Dhara Patel, a high school senior at Plant City High School in Hillsborough County, Fla., has earned an off-the-charts 10.03 GPA. “
Waste of good time, energy and investment in family and friends.
Dhara is obviously a mean-spirited racist person in obama’s america. How dare she earn a 10.0 when she can share the 10.0 GPA with “lesser’ students...
The bumper stickers will have to be revised: “My third grade dropout kid can kick the a@@ of your 10.03 GPA kid.”
I graduated from HS 40+ years ago, and I ended up top 10% of my class with a whopping 3.6 GPA.
Today, that might get me in the top third, or am I too optimistic?
“AP classes, which are on par with college courses, are often weighted, meaning that students who take them receive extra points.”
Sure, but when I was in school the maximum they were weighted was a 6.0. You could get a 5.0 for an honors class A, and a 6.0 for an AP class A, and that was that. You couldn’t even get a 6.0 aggregate GPA, because there were no AP classes for some courses, such as Phys Ed. You’d cap out around 5.4 or so for your total GPA, if you took all the AP classes available and got straight As.
Some school districts apparently weight them much higher now, but I don’t think it is fooling anyone. Surely colleges just recalculate the GPAs based on a standard formula to account for such practices.
Absurdity
A perfect score is an even accomlishment for all who attain it
4.0
Inflating that for extra cirricular is just part of school over congragulating
I witnessed it today with my own eyes
8 th graders
I blame women...sorry...totally have snockered schools with touchy feely bullshit
This GPA just shows me how absurd the process has become. If I met a kid purporting to have a 10.03 GPA, and was somehow convinced it was a meaningful figure, I think I’d laugh out loud.
That's the Odinga way!!!
My sister graduated from Wazzu with a perfect 4.0 GPA, Summa Cum Laude and is a 5th grade teacher making about $40K/year. She spent every waking moment completing her assignments to get those coveted “A’s”. I graduated with a 3.3 GPA in civil engineering which includes 2 “D’s” and never stayed awake past 9:00, had a wife, paid child support, and house and car payments and a job (no student loans) and now make 3 times her pay/year.
Therefore I think their study is flawed
My late wife graduated college with a 3.94 or maybe 3.97. I can’t remember for sure. I got out of Troy with a 2.1.
We took the Federal Service Entrance Exam together. She scored 89 and I got 99. I think it surprised her a little but she ended up with an automatic 100 because of her grades.
I applaud this young lady’s brains and hard work, and hope she does very well in life.
1) This is not her fault, but the GPA system has been rendered meaningless by rampant grade inflation and this sort of farce.
2) Why did she waste her time in high school and community college, when she could have started at a major university, at least by her junior year? Certainly high school was cheaper, but as a brilliant, female, ethnic minority, she would seem a good candidate for major scholarships. She certainly wasn’t spending her time on “socialization”.
10.03? Two and a-half times a perfect 4.0. At some point, far, far short of 10.03, these grading systems became more than a little bit ridiculous, and almost meaninless.
Nothing wrong with 4.0 being the highest possible, then those with a need to evaluate a transcript can review courses taken and extracurriculars.
I’d venture a guess that all these ways to earn additional grade points were devised to bump those up who can’t, or won’t, perform acceptably within the old 4.0 is perfect system of grading.
Yeah, but in these days of grade inglation you’re not really in the top ten percent of your class unless your GPA is at least a zillion or so.
When I graduated high school 60 years ago I had a 4.0 and that was as high as you could get.