L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.Byline: -- Ramona Shelburne A lot of people are still wondering how Agoura junior Robert Stock was able to skip his senior year of high school and enroll early at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . Basically, Stock had completed all but one of his core classes at Agoura, except English, had at least 3.5 GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted in each of his past four semesters, a 1,410 SAT score (not including the new writing section), and ranked in the top 15 percent of his graduating class. Originally, Stock had been considering Stanford and USC. But in order to enroll early, he needed to stay close to home so Stanford was out. USC offers a unique program called the Resident Honors Program Students participating in the Resident Honors Program at University of Southern California leave high school one year early, after their junior year in high school, and generally continue at USC until they complete their undergraduate degree. , which allows about 30 exceptional high school students to enroll at the school a year early. According to his father, Gregg, Stock does not yet have a high school diploma A high school diploma is a diploma awarded for the completion of high school. In the United States and Canada, it is considered the minimum education required for government jobs and higher education. An equivalent is the GED. . That will be up to the folks at Agoura High. |
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