Sarcastic positivity!

Can't crush the little kiddies emotions now. Everyone gets an "A". Libs always fail to teach kids reality. In reality people fail, don't get promoted, get passed over, lose at sports, etc....

Can't play tag any more either because someone will be "it".

Yeh that above a 4.0 stuff is pretty lame. Back in my day it didn't matter if you took hard classes or easy classes, whatever grade you got factored into your GPA equally. Now stuff is weighted and apparently given values above a 4.0 on a 4.0 scale. Kids need to learn failure and hard work, and sometimes even failure despite hard work.

Maybe, but then again, when was the last time you have taken an easy class compared to a hard AP class? Oh and you do have to take the AP test too, I don't know maybe they give you some extra stuff for the tests.

heh. hellokitty[hk], I took the most advanced classes my little high school offered (except English IV) and I still entered my university with a far below average knowledge (people already had calc and chem and physics - I didn't). And now... I have a BS in Geology & Geophysics with an emphasis area of Groundwater and Environmental Geochemistry, a Masters of Science in Engineering Management, and I'm 1 year into a PhD program in Geology, with my dissertation being on Shallow Depth Carbon Dioxide Sequestration.

And I have failed, quite a bit in trying to get this far. I had to drop Chem 1 twice, then I took it at another college over the summer only to get an A and find out it wouldn't transfer to my college. So I took it a 3rd time (here) and 4th time total and got a C. Then I took its successor class, and also got a C. I also got a D in Calc 1 here, took Calc 2 at another college and got a B. So I fully stand by my statement on how it is good sometimes to experience failure even when you are trying not to fail.

And also, to give a non specific answer to your question. Those weighted GPA's and/or classes don't mean anything in college, in college you can take 3 hours of Art Appreciation and 3 hours of Quantum Physics and they count exactly the same towards your GPA. So why make it different for HS?

Failure is great, until you get too much. But anyway, those classes are supposed to have a lot of homework and studying, and so they boost your grade a little for those people who want perfect grades, and those who want to get to colleges accepting nothing less than A++ I suppose.

If that is the case, then the colleges are at equal fault as the douchebags that came up with the higher than perfect score.

I doubt any of you snowflakes are going to face "too much failure" to prevent you from doing something great. If you are too much of a pansy to take failure then you probably aren't that great after all.