[Counselors] Weighted GPA

Tue Dec 13 10:14:08 CST 2016

Our AP courses are weighted at 5.  Our Pre-AP/Honors courses and concurrent courses are weighted at 4.5.

*Sally Randolph*
Counselor, A-J
*Skiatook High School*
Skiatook, OK
918.396.1790 Ext 2409

*"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.*

We weight all Concurrent classes. They are 5.on a High School 4. scale.  We only count them as electives unless they are curriculum checked for High School credit, and we keep the course synopses on file (such as Freshman Comp 1 in concurrent counting as Eng. IV in High School). We use all classes to figure GPA for graduation, so Concurrent students have several opportunities to raise their GPA. We pay the fees if students meet the requirements to receive a tuition fee waiver (grade point and/or ACT or SAT score qualifiers).

At Navajo we weight classes if they are core, such as College algebra, biology, government, and American history. Some of the ones that we don't weight would be psychology, microcomputer applications, and speech .

We weight concurrent math/English/history/science classes if we offer an AP/PreAP equivalent. We give 1 honor point. We do not weight elective concurrent classes.

This is Wellston LOCAL POLICY:
We weight AP and concurrent classes.  We also give 1 full Credit for college classes. The reason for this is because a junior can take English Comp I to cover English III and English Comp II to cover English IV.  We also have begun a new college algebra class taught by our math teacher and this class is for the students that cannot make the 19 to take concurrent college algebra.  This class will take the CLEP test in April at UCO.  This kills two birds with one stone.  1. This keeps our seniors in a math class. (Both the math teacher and myself feel like this is VERY important!) 2. Keeps our numbers for college remediation in math down!  In AP Biology our students will take the AP exam and go to UCO to take the CLEP test in April. We are expecting great scores for these students.

*Anna Marie Perdue, M.Ed, LPC*

*Wellston School Counselor*

*aperdue at wellstonschools.org <aperdue at wellstonschools.org>*

405-356-2533

We do not give weighted credit for college classes, because we can't be sure the instructors have completed a AP conference or if the type of assignments are comparable to the AP classes.

Melissa Poole
High School Counselor
Tecumseh Public Schools
Email poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us<mailto:poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us>
Phone: (405) 598-2113
Fax: (405)598-0394

We only weigh classes through class rank for AP/Dual courses. They have to take so many in order to graduate with honors.

Carl Albert High School does not weight concurrent or dual classes.

We weight all concurrent classes by .5 like a Pre-AP class in Mid-Del

We do not weight concurrent, because not all students can afford the fees associated with the classes.

Yes, we weight all college classes

We do not currently weight them but are planning to change that in our board policy for next year.  In my opinion, concurrent is more beneficial to students while still challenging them academically and my principal and
supt agree.

At Bixby- Concurrent/PreAP/Honors/AP are all weighted at a 5 instead of a 4. AP students that take the AP exam for that course and pass it will have the weight of that class changed to a 6 the next fall  instead of a 5 to
encourage them to take the exam.

We do not weight concurrent classes.  AP are the only classes which we weight.

QUESTION:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion
Board <counselors at lists.onenet.net> wrote:

For those of you who use high school weighted GPA’s for AP/Honors classes do you weight concurrent classes? If so, any specific rules on which classes you weight? Thanks for the info!

*Carrie Jo Willis*

*Fort Gibson High School*

*Counselor*

*(918) 478-2452*

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