Rant about weighted GPAs.

Hah Jokes on them. I got into a major university with a 2.8

School grading needs ozempic fr

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This is why standardized testing should be required.

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For sure. But that’s an entirely additional argument. ACT, SAT, lsat, cat, gmat, gre or whatever.

I was just talking about how these random scales are hard to interpret.

It's not that complicated.

(1) The A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1 system gets supplemented where there are plus and minus grades, most commonly A+ = 4.33, A = 4, A- = 3.67, B+ = 3.33, B = 3, B- = 2.67, etc.

(2) Any given grade (A, B, whatever) at least in theory should mean a higher level of subject mastery in an AP or honors class than in a regular class. For example, arguably a B in AP English is equivalent to an A in regular English. So at many schools, honors and AP classes get one extra point, A = 5, B = 4, etc.

The real problems, IMO, have more to do with first, some schools are far more academically-demanding than other schools are, in terms of what an A or B or whatever really means about how much the student has to know; and second, grade inflation and passing students along without making them really prove they've learned enough of the material.

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I was just talking about how these random scales are hard to interpret.

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they're a crock of shite is what they are, reminds me of playing baseball in high school, very common to have scouts at the games, we'd go talk to them before the games, whenever we began to talk stats, our stats, they'd chuckle, stifling belly laughs, and say they never ever paid any attention to individual player stats, and I knew exactly why

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Unless a school uses a traditional 4.0 scale

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Even this is frequently bullshite, many colleges use plus minus letter grades that distort your GPA.

UGA (at least in the 2010s when I was there) gives any grade between 90-92 an A-, worth only 3.7/4.0 GPA. There is no corresponding A+, so to have a 4.0 you have to make a 93 or better in all your classes. And for the subjective classes, anything less than genius level work was getting an A-

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Like without reading their entire grading system, how am I supposed to know what that means?

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You aren't, but college admission offices do.

It really doesn't make sense for an A in remedial English or math to count the same as an A in AP English or Calculus.

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Im in education and saw a valedictorian of a rural school with a 14 ACT composite and a 4.2 GPA

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I taught night classes at a community college and had a valedictorian who couldn't write a sentence.

It was actually sad. She had NO CLUE that she was woefully behind even the lowest college-level student.

Very simple solution and those are standardized test scores. That’s why they are so important. I say that as a person who mostly tests average. Tough shite for me though. The cream should rise to the top in academic fields. I want those people performing surgery or building bridges to be our best.