Transcripts of students in advanced placement and honors classes in the two public high schools will soon show no weighted grades.

AP and honors class grades will be recorded on the traditional 4-point scale, with no extra points added to account for the upper-level workload.

&#8220It’s deceiving, and we need students and parents to have full disclosure of how the grading system works,” said Dr. James Price, superintendent of the Vicksburg Warren School District.

The Board of Trustees approved the change at its monthly meeting Thursday.

Grade point averages are determined by dividing points earned by the number of courses. An A equals 4 points, a B equals 3 points, a C equals 2 points and a D equals 1 point.

A student taking four courses, then, and making A’s in all four would have a 4.0 grade-point average.

But in many advanced placement classes grades were weighted on a 6-point and honors classes on a 5-point scale.

That means a student taking four courses, making two A’s in regular classes and two C’s in AP classes could still claim a 4.0 grade-point average.

But college admissions staffs wouldn’t see it that way, Price said. They do not include the added points, so a student thinking he was applying with a one grade average would actually be ranked lower.

&#8220We’d have some students thinking a C in an AP class would be 4 points, but when it goes to college admissions, it counts as a real C. That can hurt,” Price said.

The weights will still be added to determine class rank for senior night in the spring, but transcripts will not reflect the addition.

&#8220It will count for one night and one night only now,” Price said.

In his superintendent’s report at the close of the meeting, Price: