Yes, our school doesn't give "extra" GPA credits for pre-AP classes, which are not labelled as Honors. Honors and AP classes get the extra point. I guess there are probably about 30 AP and Honors classes total. (Some are things like "Year 5 Japanese," which I doubt my kids will take).
The average GPA for kids admitted to our UC schools (not UC-Berkeley) is 4.20 on a 5.00 scale. Wow!
My point was simply- explore why the school doesn't want her to take the AP Geography class in 9th grade. Our high school also won't allow that, I think b/c they require you to take the 9th grade Honors English class first since they feel you won't have the requisite writing skills, or whatever.
Our high school will only allow you to take one college or community college class during your 4 years of high school and have that count in the GPA.
