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On June 17 2007 11:04 jjl wrote:
I agree about the 8.0 being complete BS, but despite that, maybe the girl actually is smart. Who knows. Give her a break. Sounds like people are just jealous of the media attention. But the media likes to hear BS like "8.0 GPA".
Agree with you 100%. She still may be a bitch.
Safe is to say, it's really inappropriate for any of us to judge
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schools don't care so much anymore about gpa as they do about class rank
if you are ranked 1 out of 700 but "only" have a 4.0 because your school has no grade inflation then you still have great chances of getting into the ivy leagues etc
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I'd get a 8.0 if I took AP lunch and AP tea drinking.
I seriously think AP classes are just a waste of time now (at least the tests are, the classes themselves might be pretty interesting). Back in the day, I remember trying to take as many AP classes as I could so I could get all these "college units". In reality you do get a bunch of units but they don't actually count for anything, they're just there. So you get stuck with a bunch of units that aren't worth anything, and you still have to take all your GEs.
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Class rank means nothing, especially if your school (such as mine) doesn't weight classes. We have a bunch of bitchcakes who take remedial english and study hall who are in the top 5% of our class. Of our top 25 (we have about one thousand kids in my class), more than half haven't taken a single advanced course.
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On June 17 2007 10:53 Daveed wrote:Show nested quote +On June 17 2007 09:59 WhatisProtoss wrote:
When did I say in the world? I said, at MIT the ratio is 3:1.
I never even mentioned the world, wtf? What's up with you Chinese getting so riled up? You are the single largest population on this planet. Hell, you guys BETTER have more Olympiad gold medalist and genius scientists than the rest of us.
Who cares about how many Chinese people there are? You still lose the medal count to a bunch of smaller nations at Olympics. I think it's a classic example of quantity vs. quality. Yo, chillax~ Any-how, I guess I don't know that many of the Korean Intl's @ MIT. But, I don't believe that there could be such a big gap between medalists in number; one of the IPhO kids from China told me that there were... I believe, 3 kids from the Chinese math team who transferred this year. Now, maybe this was a special year, and a lot came over, but it seems like if this ~3 people thing was approx. true for past years too, then... there can't possibly be a 3:1 ratio. Anyway, I don't want to argue with you. International kids are, in general, frickin' smart. End of story, yeah?
From the class of 2008, there are 2 physics Olympiad gold medalists, 1 chemistry gold medalist, 1 chemistry silver medalist.
In the grade above mine, the graduated class, there were at least 2 physics gold medalists and 1 math gold medalist.
And there are only 4-7 Koreans accepted from overseas.
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lol, what a waste of childhood.
poor girl.
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no sense in this, really.
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APs in my school only boosted you by 0.5 and IMO they shouldn't have boosted you at all -.-
having GPAs higher than 4.0 is just dumb, grade inflation sucks but it's everywhere
On June 17 2007 10:54 iamke55 wrote:
I must have the hardest grading high school around. There's nothing above a 4.0 here, no matter how AP a class is. You need 95% for an A(or 94.5% rounded up by a nice teacher), A- counts as 3.7 no matter if it's honors or AP, no such thing as A+, etc. My 3.82 got recalculated to a 3.97 by college standards and pretty much any 3.9+ is taken as a 4.0 by colleges. I think we just don't like having multiple Vals/Sals.
That said, 8.0 is like post-WWI Germany money.
this is how most college GPAs work i think at least
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On June 17 2007 09:00 Tien wrote:
Who cares.
GPA is just another near meaningless number.
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I don't understand how its mathematically possible to have a 8.0 GBA. I guess she would have had to taken AP classes since her freshman year? My school only offers college level courses for juniors and seniors, so having an 8.0 dosen't make any sense.
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It makes no sense and it sounds like she does not understand why she received an 8.0 either.
Her school district has a weird curriculum.
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high school weight doesnt mean shit because colleges use their own wieghting system. the only thing it effects is class rank, and if everybody in that high school has the same opportunity to take the higher level classes it doesn't matter.
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its the APM and WPM that matters here.
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On June 17 2007 13:44 anch wrote:
its the APM and WPM that matters here.
someone should do some research about the relativity between APM and GPA of the average TLnetter.
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What? A cheerleader. I d hit it.
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Grades in general right now are fucking retarded, for example
This last quarter I got a 92.5 in spanish. In our school anything above .5 gets rounded up to next whole number, anything below .4 gets rounded down.
Grades are like
98-100 A+
93-97 A
90-92 B+
85-90 B
Etc....
(The took of A-, B-, C- etc because they thought that it lowered self esteem to see a - on a grade, bullshit)
So if I get a 92.5 and it gets rounded up, thats an A, which is a 4.0 on my gpa. BUT, if i got a 92.4, it's a B+, which is only a 3.4 (I think). SO A TENTH OF A POINT CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOUR ENTIRE GPA. Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds. I like it personally, because I can slack off and get low A's, but on the report card that my parents see they have no idea whether I got a 92.5 or a 96.4.
AP adds on .7 to our GPA, which makes them actually worth taking because most of the AP classes at our school are a joke.
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i'm so pissed
my fucking highschool doesn't weight AP classes any different than gym class and pottery class and shit.
i've gotten all A's and B's in my AP classes, and all A's in regular classes, and i don't even have a 4.0
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oh the other thing to keep in mind.
i always used unweighted GPA, because it shaves away the bullshit of all the different point systems.
besides, anyone worth impressing won't be impressed by an inflated GPA.
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i dunno i don't really see that as possible. I'm sure she put a lot of effort into her work but I was also under the impression that an AP grade was worth like 1.3x as much as your normal classes. Honors classes were given 1.1x as much weight. Maybe because I had the NYS regents system so everything was based upon these tests and you don't have as many opportunities to take certain AP's; therefore it was impossible to weigh AP's like in other states because of the rigidity of the NYS system? I dunno :o
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