Do Colleges Re-Configure/Re-weight your GPA?

Applying to College
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<p>I have heard on several occasions the rumor that after sending in your application and transcript to Colleges, they will re-weight or re-configure your GPA to one standard system, as opposed to using each high school's individual methodology.</p>

<p>Can anyone confirm or deny this? For example, my school does not weight and uses a 4.4 (A+) scale. So, having taken all honors and APs, will adcoms see a "different" GPA than the one listed on my transcript?</p>

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<p>Each school will definitely do things differently, but it's my understanding that most of the top schools will look at your unweighted (4.0 scale) GPA when making the decision. Your weighted GPA already helps you out via improving your class rank.</p>

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<p>^ really? they look at your unweighted GPA? why not your WEIGHTED? (that's what my GC tells me) that seems to make so much more sense... if i were a college admissions person, i would (of course) accept a 4.0uw/4.5w as opposed to a 4.0uw/4.0w...</p>

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<p>Almost every college unweights your GPA. </p>

<p>They check the rigor of curriculum. Though one person may have a 4.0w/4.0uw and another might have a 4.5w/4.0uw, the 4.5 weighted person will obviously have a tougher courseload, and the GPA would look better. Most schools (especially top colleges) will even say on their website that they unweight GPAs.</p>

<p>Besides, weighting would be unfair to the people that get less extra points for advanced classes.</p>

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<p>EXACTLY. And they unweigh to a 4.0 = A, 3.0 = B scale, because otherwise they'd be treating people with A+/A- differently, etc.</p>

<p>Some schools tack on .3 for AP; others give 1.0 for Honors. Some schools don't calculate Gym/Art classes in QPA. All of these factors affect final QPA, as does independent study, moving beyond AP level, etc. So colleges stare at your transcript (bad grades really stick out, it's not difficult) and they see if you've taken hard classes to take into account the "weighting" factor.</p>

<p>All the same, it IS pretty cool to have a high weighted QPA, your counselor will probably give you a better rec. =D</p>