Weighted Grade Argumentative Essay

Do you believe it is fair for someone who doesn’t try, doesn’t care, and doesn’t want to push themselves to excel academically to be accepted into a college or honors program, or be awarded a scholarship over you, just because their GPA was higher? It isn’t fair, but it happens anyway. Every year students chances of scholarships are obstructed by other individuals, not intentionally, but because their cumulative grade point average is higher than their peers only due to the fact that the courses that student takes aren’t advanced preparatory, dual credit, or honors. The absence of weighted classes in California High School can potentially detrimentally affect the majority of the student population; regardless, a simple fix to this ever-growing issue is to begin weighting the courses that are more arduous, strenuous, and challenging. This is and will continue to be a …show more content…
Advanced students aren’t ensured a top rank in their class, lessens the chance of students gaining a competitive edge over other college and scholarship applicants, and there is no source of encouragement for less driven students to want to perform at a higher level academically (Downs 2000). It is clear that schools that do not implement weighted grades face consequences pertaining to their student’s secondary and post-secondary academic success. For instance, Tally and Mohr (1993) reported that a survey addressing 559 different colleges and junior colleges’ admission process, which resulted in the admission directors stating there is no advantage for students that have weighted grades. However, after further research, it was discovered that 76 percent of the time, students with weighted grades are selected for admittance over students without weighted grades (Tally and Mohr,