GPA’s are a joke these days...
Long ago were the 4.0 was perfect, now they get classes with higher numbers to bring up averages, etc etc...
The public school system as a whole is a joke.
As are ACT and SAT scores
It’s grwded and weighed different
I hear folks all the time sayin well my kid got a 30-34 on the ACT
that was rare as hens teeth in 1974
It’s ridiculous
I think the mean on these tests has been bumped 28-30 percent
Kids are sure as hell not smarter
This is to offset those who get the 4.0 average by taking only the basic easy courses, who beat those who take advanced placement courses. For example, a senior taking basic algebra gets the easy A, versus another student taking AP Calculus getting a B. The more difficult courses, such as AP courses, get weighted in their favor.
I took AP Calculus and AP Chemistry before this was implemented.
How else do you reconcile a kid with a B in a college level course with a kid getting an A in the easy course? Even if the first got an A, if 4.0 was the max, there would be incentive to take the easier courses rather than the more difficult courses. This is one area that the schools actually did something correctly about 30 years ago.