<p>I saw many guys here have 4.5+ GPAs, are them the whole GPA throughout the high school years or just junior year's?
If they're the whole GPA, how can they get that much APs in freshman year?
thanks for any response!</p>
<p>Many of us take a programm called the IB Program... which has a 1.1 weighting and you if take around 10 classes during your senior and junior year with honor classes in sophmore and freshman year, it really adds up</p>
<p>Also, I think many public schools give you a 1.0 bump for A's and B's in honors classes as well as for AP classes. An A is 5.0, B is 4.0, C=2.0, D=1.0. It is normal for a weighted gpa to be about 0.5 above the unweighted.</p>
<p>At my S's high school, classes were really at three levels: regular, honors, AP. The classes and students weren't that good either. People aiming for colleges rarely took regular classes if an honors version was available. On the AP's, 67% of the AP test-takers got either 1's or 2's. </p>
<p>The main thing, though, is to take the most challenging curriculum available at your high school. GPA's are not evaluated in a vacuum. They are always used in conjunction with the rank. If a school doesn't rank, then adcoms use the high school profile to determine what the gpa means.</p>
<p>Also, more likely than not, admissions committees recalculate your GPA according to their own scales. This probably means that more selective colleges ignore elective courses and attribute to AP classes vs. Honors classes vs. Regular classes different points based on their own rubric.</p>