Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheerio
We had sets of numeric/weighed grade rankings, with an "A" in Advanced Placement courses earning 5 points but an "A" in Regular courses earning 4 points. The tougher a course, the higher the numeric weight of the grade earned toward GPA. Our smarties had GPAs above 4.0 due to this system.
|
My high school did/does this. The valedictorian almost always was a student taking many AP courses. I don't think there has ever been more than one person as valedictorian, but then again, when I graduated from high school, the school was only about 10 years old.
Since there were a lot of students with really high GPAs, they were given ropes or stoles depending on where their GPA fell on a scale.