Honors course can be .5 or 1.0 weighted up and AP Courses are 1.0 weighted up. This is standard for most high schools now.
So if you get an A in AP World History it is a 5.0.
A- in Honors Chemistry it is a 4.2 or something like that.
SO if you have a 3.75 GPA.... it might not be as good as...