<p>I'm trying to fill out the academics section of the Commonapp, and was wondering what the best way to calculate unweighted GPA is.
Should I do
A=4 B=3 or break it down into minuses and pluses? </p>
<p>I think the whole letter system works much better in my favor because I have a lot of A minuses but not as many B pluses.</p>
<p>So yeah, how do you guys do it?</p>
<p>You should report the GPA provided by school or follow your school guidelines. Do not invent anything new on your own.</p>
<p>an A- is a 3.5, in my school.</p>
<p>You’ve started already? Now I’m panicking.</p>
<p>you should probably use either the collegeboard guideline or your school’s one</p>
<p>Each school weights grades differently. For my school, A- is the same as A, B+ is the same as B-, etc. We actually didn’t even have + or - on report cards until last year.</p>
<p>So should I just use the weighted one on my transcript? I figured UW would be better</p>
<p>If you want colleges to see you’re uw gpa, I would wait until school started to ask my counselor. Btw, I started the common app last year before august 1st and they wiped out the entire system of anything started before that date. I guess they thought that all of those applications belonged to class of 2010. So just be careful and back your stuff up just in case…</p>