It’s 5.0 standard now. He is a run of the mill ‘B’ student.
I always get confused too.
I learned about a decade ago when a highschooler, who ended up being his class’s valedictorian, was working in the shop; honor classes, what we called college prep classes in the late 60s early 70s, rate 5 points for an A, etc.
They get extra credit for being homo, tranny, minority,sjw or just for showing up.
In my daughter’s high school (one of the top 10 in TX), they give you bonus points for taking pre-AP and AP courses (about 15% and 30%, respectively), on the theory that these are harder than regular high school classes. So, in theory, you can get 130% in a class - and that is important with regard to class rank. There is another school in my daughter’s district where if you don’t have at least a 105 average, you don’t stand a chance of getting into good colleges (because the colleges know very well what is going on at each high school).
As for Hogg, I’d bet that his 4.1 makes him perhaps in the top 30% - 40%. The area around there is quite well-to-do, suggesting not only more intelligent parents (on average, of course - and having NOTHING to do with their political intelligence), but also a lot of paid tutoring for the little Johnnies and Marys so that they get into the best colleges.
“What is a 4.1 GPA?”
Essentially, that is called the “weighted GPA’ vs a non-weighted GPA. In short, a high school kid can get “extra” if he or she takes an honors course or an Advanced Placement course. Thus, the time/energy/studying in an advanced class is more than the “regular” class (which is true in most cases). I think they do this simply to allow students the freedom to take a more difficult class, put in the effort etc... or everyone would be taking the on level classes (who wants to risk their GPA for Honors chemistry, for example, if they could slam dunk an A in regular chemistry). That being said, most colleges I know ask for BOTH GPA’s and I have known some kids to have a 5.0 weighted GPA. One can make the argument that a student should WANT to advance their education and challenge themselves by taking the more difficult classes but if they are applying to a private college/state college... the competition can be fierce. Unlike when I applied (my college applications simply asked for GPA and SAT results), today’s admissions ask for GPA/SAT/or ACT/clubs/awards/volunteer activities etc... Hope this helps :)
Some high schools give additional points for certain classes, up to a 5. It’s just a way to inflate GPA’s. I saw this 20 years ago when I worked in an admission’s office.
If I remember correctly, when I was in high school in the 70’s, advanced classes were worth 5 points and AP classes were worth 6 points.
For many years now grades in high school are weighted. Meaning if you take advanced classes like AP English, physics, and such your A will be = to 5 instead of 4. This help separate the easy A types. My sons grades were like that.
That 4.0 max you mentioned is so 1980’s. Today high schools give credit for taking AP or college credit. Now you can have a 5.0 grade point average as they weigh the harder classes. My guess is Hogg has 1 AP type course and the rest regular and probably gets A’s in all of them IF the 4.1 is true.
“What is a “4.1 GPA”? 4.0 is a perfect GPA”
You get more than 4 points of credit towards the GPA from Honors or Advanced Placement classes now. So, if you have 5 classes, and get As in all of them, but one is an Honors class (worth 5 GPA points), you would have a 4.2 GPA for that semester.
How come Hogg did not tweet his SAT score(s) or the scores on his AP tests? I will bet the mortgage they were not impressive results.
4.0 is still a perfect "A" grade, but many years ago the leftists running our public schools decided to start giving extra credit thus allowing for grades above 4.0 (just like people quoting percentages above 100%).
Twelve years ago my daughter graduated high school with a 4.29 GPA and she was beaten out by 21 other kids who had even higher scores (475 total graduates that year). The big problem was all but one of those kids had gamed the system to inflate their grades by taking garbage classes while my daughter took AP Calculus, AP Physics, and all the hardest classes she could find. There was one boy who beat her with a 4.3 GPA who took all the hard classes with my daughter.
AP (considered college level courses) are assigned an additional point due to difficulty.
My daughter waived out of 1 1/2 of college requirements due strictly to AP courses and passing the exams. I think she ended up with a 4.6 or something like that.
I would have loved to have had AP courses when I was in HS....alas...