<p>Which is better for ivies and other top schools: a higher GPA or a higher Weighted GPA</p>
<p>My situation is that my school is allowing us to drop the high school classes we took in middle school from our transcript. For me they were all A's but in middle school none of them were weighted/honors therefore keeping them on the transcript increases my gpa marginally (from 3.81 to 3.84), but removing them keeps my gpa at 3.81 but increases my WGPA (from 4.69 to 4.74). </p>
<p>So therefore which data set looks better
1. GPA - 3.81 WGPA - 4.74
or
2. GPA - 3.84 WGPA - 4.69</p>
<p>another thing to take in to consideration is that my transcript will show 3 basic middle school classes (french1, geometry, and algebra1) with option 2, but i doubt seeing those classes on their matters much, so basically which one of the 2 above is the best option to show???</p>
<p>I would go for the higher weight in that it would increase your class rank. I am fairly certain colleges often dont use your high school GPA, but look at your grades and caculate their own.</p>
<p>Just put them on your transcript. If they aren't on your transcript, colleges won't even know you took the class. They don't care about your weighted GPA either, they weight it themselves. The only way for you that I would not put it on there is if you are valedictorian and that would knock you out.</p>
<p>i reccomend keeping the one with the higher weighted GPA. Also, a lot of colleges don't consider your freshman year and your middle school courses are not that important.</p>
<p>Hm, I'd say keep 'em, if the colleges are calculating thier own GPAs anyway. It just shows how awesome you are for taking high school classes in middle school, and getting A's in them. That can't be a bad thing, can it?</p>
<p>whoa that's kind of crazy and confusing how you can choose all of that. What schools are you planning to apply to? I can't speak on behalf of the Ivies, but for the UC's (berkeley, UCLA, etc), they actually have slots in the UC application where you fill out 7th/8th grade classes that are considered high school classes (i.e. algebra, geometry, spanish, etc.). You don't even fill in your GPA as calculated by your school because the UC's have their own system of calculating your GPA based on the list of coursework you filled out on your application (list them all, btw, even your middle school coursework since they have a section for that).</p>
<p>oh just to add on to what i said earlier...</p>
<p>I dont think the UC's calculate your middle school and freshman year classes into the UC GPA, only sophomore and jr. year matters. List everything anyways. Good luck!</p>