Sports! Are You Eligible?

At our staff meeting this morning, I discovered that the calculations for GPA that goes on transcripts for college is calculated differently than the way GPA is calculated for eligibility for sports and other co-curricular activities.

Calculating GPA for sports does -not- take into account weighting Honors and AP classes.  For Transcript GPA, normal classes use a 4-point scale, and Honors/AP classes use a 5-point scale.  Under the CIF Blue Book (.pdf), grades from classes cannot be weighted.  AP classes are on the same 4-point scale as a normal class.

Here's the scenario (name changed to protect the ineligible):
John Smith - 11th Grade - Fall Semester

Class	Grade	Transcript Points	Eligibility Points
Marching Band	A	4	4
AP Lang & Comp	D-	2	1
Honors Human Anatomy	C-	3	2
Pre-Calculus	D-	1	1
Spanish IIA	C	2	2
US History	D-	1	1
GPA		2.16	1.83

CIF demands that players have a 2.0.  Looks like our John Smith will be benched.