If HS grades were used for admissions in the US, it would incentivize college-bound high schoolers to avoid challenging classes like AP classes, advanced STEM classes, history classes beyond state requirements, etc.

The optimal strategy would be to take the easiest classes required to graduate, since there's no national authority to normalize grades across classes.

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IncreasePosts 6 days ago | parent [-]

You just give multipliers for advanced classes then. That's how my high school calculated GPA - if you took all "A" level classes your max GPA was 4.0, but if you took AP classes and aced them you could end up with a 4.3 or something like that

	▲	BobaFloutist 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's how almost all highschools and colleges do advanced classes, Honors classes are graded on a 4.5 scale and AP classes on a 5.0 scale (and also count for college credit so you get to skip some intro classes after admission). This, of course, leads to yet more grade inflation. Hard to compete with a >4.0 student when your school doesn't even offer advanced courses!