[Counselors] Weighted GPA

Fri Dec 16 14:53:39 CST 2016

On the subject of concurrent courses, does your high school let students
take evening classes?  Is that part of district decision?

Kathy McCollough
Chouteau High School

*Kathy McCollough*
*High School Counselor*
*Chouteau High School*
*Phone: (918) 476-8334 ext. 201*
*Fax: (918) 476-1216*

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:14 AM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion
Board <counselors at lists.onenet.net> wrote:

> Our AP courses are weighted at 5.  Our Pre-AP/Honors courses and
> concurrent courses are weighted at 4.5.
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> *Sally Randolph*
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> Counselor, A-J
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> *Skiatook High School*
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> Skiatook, OK
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> *"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve." -Dr. Martin Luther
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> 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).
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> 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 .
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> 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.
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> *This is Wellston LOCAL POLICY*:
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> 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.
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> *Anna Marie Perdue, M.Ed, LPC*
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> *Wellston School Counselor*
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> *aperdue at wellstonschools.org <aperdue at wellstonschools.org>*
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> 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.
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> Melissa Poole
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> High School Counselor
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> Tecumseh Public Schools
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> Email poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us<mailto:poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us>
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> We only weigh classes through class rank for AP/Dual courses. They have to
> take so many in order to graduate with honors.
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> Carl Albert High School does not weight concurrent or dual classes.
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> We weight all concurrent classes by .5 like a Pre-AP class in Mid-Del
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> We do not weight concurrent, because not all students can afford the fees
> associated with the classes.
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> Yes, we weight all college classes
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> 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
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> 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
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> encourage them to take the exam.
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> We do not weight concurrent classes.  AP are the only classes which we
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> *QUESTION:*
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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion
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> Board <counselors at lists.onenet.net> wrote:
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> 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!
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> *Carrie Jo Willis*
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> *Fort Gibson High School*
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