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Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
June 16 2007 23:26 GMT
#1
For those of you who don't know how the American GPA (grade point average) works: a 4.0 is considered perfect - straight As. An A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.4, B is 3.0, etc. A 2.0 is usually required for most public universities to stay in school. So for her to get an 8.0, she had to take AP (advanced placement classes) and college classes. High schools weight these classes and the "higher level" classes, allowing kids to have GPAs far over a 4.0. So I could get a C in an AP class and it would have the same weight as an A in the normal version of that class.

Link to the video 1m 46s

Grade inflation like this just irks me.
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unknown.sam
Profile Joined May 2007
Philippines2701 Posts
June 16 2007 23:30 GMT
#2
that's pretty scary to say the least...
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azndsh
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4447 Posts
June 16 2007 23:30 GMT
#3
she is going to MIT after all

and I take it gym and health aren't mandatory there like it is at most schools
funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9376 Posts
June 16 2007 23:32 GMT
#4
nice.

good.

so?
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HolyToss1911
Profile Joined May 2007
354 Posts
June 16 2007 23:33 GMT
#5
On June 17 2007 08:26 Dknight wrote:
For those of you who don't know how the American GPA (grade point average) works: a 4.0 is considered perfect - straight As. An A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.4, B is 3.0, etc. A 2.0 is usually required for most public universities to stay in school. So for her to get an 8.0, she had to take AP (advanced placement classes) and college classes. High schools weight these classes and the "higher level" classes, allowing kids to have GPAs far over a 4.0. So I could get a C in an AP class and it would have the same weight as an A in the normal version of that class.

Link to the video 1m 46s

Grade inflation like this just irks me.


That tipe of inflation make that kids worry about grades more than they father about their jobs and
keeping good grades = almost not social life.
grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
June 16 2007 23:37 GMT
#6
Wow, that's insane.

But if 4.0 is the best you can get in normal cases, why did she want to get 8.0? isn't that sort of meaningless?
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Hans-Titan
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Denmark1711 Posts
June 16 2007 23:39 GMT
#7
Noone in Denmark has ever achived what would be equivalent to a 4.0 average, mostly because in the old grading system the hightest grade was 13, which was pretty damn impossible to get. Some teachers simply decided not to give 13's because it was a normal opinion that it was impossible to achieve. In the new system it's much more possible, but still pretty damn hard.

On topic, that's quite a feat. I don't like thought that your grades can go above the maximum just because you take extra classes though. An 8.0 avg is just sick.
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minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-16 23:41:22
June 16 2007 23:40 GMT
#8
If a genius isn't relaxed and doesn't use he/she's brain in a domain that pleasures him/her, the high IQ is pretty much wasted in my opinion.

she gotta relax it
perhaps I just hate high-graders because i'm lazy as shit
Duffybeer
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China183 Posts
June 16 2007 23:45 GMT
#9
On June 17 2007 08:40 minus_human wrote:
If a genius isn't relaxed and doesn't use he/she's brain in a domain that pleasures him/her, the high IQ is pretty much wasted in my opinion.

she gotta relax it
perhaps I just hate high-graders because i'm lazy as shit

Not everyone with high GPA's, or high IQ's are geniuses, those things really are not a measure of true intelligence.
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davidgurt
Profile Joined September 2006
United States1355 Posts
June 16 2007 23:46 GMT
#10
That's total bullshit. "Extra credit"? As far as I know, honors courses only adds a single point to your GPA. Thus, the highest GPA you should theoretically be able to obtain is 5.0. The average GPA for UC students from our high school was around 4.3, and the average GPA for top tier privates was around 4.5.

Speaking of MIT, a friend of mine who currently goes there said, "Yeah, MIT tends to accept a lot of girls. You have to have a vagina or you can't get in."
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
June 16 2007 23:46 GMT
#11
When I went to school, the most you could get was a 5.0. AP class weight was 5.0 for an A, 4.0 for a B, 3.0 for a C, but that was all averaged over your total number of classes, and you wouldn't get "extra GPA" for taking more classes. Frankly, I think this student's school's system is ridiculous.
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davidgurt
Profile Joined September 2006
United States1355 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-16 23:49:19
June 16 2007 23:48 GMT
#12
I bet she's fucking retarded as hell. "It's those higher level classes, I guess, that adds up." I'm going laugh when she gets poundedintheass at MIT.

"Times when she only got 4 hours of sleep a night." Please. $20 says she'd get a 2.0 if she went to my high school.
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Jim
Profile Joined November 2003
Sweden1965 Posts
June 16 2007 23:49 GMT
#13
well done, lol. I hope she liked the subjects she read because imo it seems like a waste of time..
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SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
June 16 2007 23:50 GMT
#14
Calm it down...
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Sudyn
Profile Joined May 2007
United States744 Posts
June 16 2007 23:56 GMT
#15
Geez, I took a shitload of APs and my GPA is still only like a 4.7 because the highest we get averaged into our GPA is +10 points (so a 100 [4.0] factored into a GPA is a 110 [5.0]) That's ridiculous. Also, classes like Health (which can't be AP and are automatically 4.0 if you get a 100) drops my GPA to lower than a 5.0.

Damn T_T
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white_box921
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United Kingdom967 Posts
June 17 2007 00:00 GMT
#16
so what is that equivalent to in english system? 8 a-level of A's?
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17053 Posts
June 17 2007 00:00 GMT
#17
Next year, all of my classes except orchestra would be counted out of 5 out of a 4 GPA, except our school doesn't weight grades. So I have a 3.65 cum. GPA.

This girl would get eaten alive at MIT.
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LuMiX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
China5757 Posts
June 17 2007 00:00 GMT
#18
wow, the grading system in that school sucks horribly...
Tien
Profile Joined January 2003
Russian Federation4447 Posts
June 17 2007 00:00 GMT
#19
Who cares.

GPA is just another near meaningless number.
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minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
June 17 2007 00:01 GMT
#20
On June 17 2007 08:45 Duffybeer wrote:
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On June 17 2007 08:40 minus_human wrote:
If a genius isn't relaxed and doesn't use he/she's brain in a domain that pleasures him/her, the high IQ is pretty much wasted in my opinion.

she gotta relax it
perhaps I just hate high-graders because i'm lazy as shit

Not everyone with high GPA's, or high IQ's are geniuses, those things really are not a measure of true intelligence.


Yes, you're right I guess.. that was a little besides the point. I just think she MUST be smart besides insanely motivated to work. Don't you agree?
When I wrote what I wrote I was considering she must have high intelligence, otherwise all the hard work or nerd-ness in the world wouldn't have brought her that GPA
What I wasn't considering, though, is that indeed she MAY not be all so smart. But I don't think we should underestimate her, even though we really don't like her lifestyle
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