<p>say that at your school you have a 92/100 unweighted average, what is your gpa when colleges view it?
a 3.5?</p>
<p>basically:how do you calculate your gpa?</p>
<p>In many public schools, A - 4, B - 3, C -2, D - 1, E - 0. Add up the points you get, and divide by the number of classes u have:</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>My grades in 7 classes:</p>
<p>A
B
A
B
A
A
A</p>
<p>Thats 4+3+4+3+4+4+4, which is 26. Then I divide by 7, and get 3,71, which is my GPA.</p>
<p>For Cum. GPAs, its a matter of adding up from freshman to senior semesters...</p>
<p>Some colleges recalculate your gpa during the admissions process. They tend to focus more on the 5 main subjects (english, math, science, social science, and foreign language).</p>
<p>In addition, you get different calculations for GPA depending on whether or not it is an honors class (weighted) so basically, an A in a regulars class is the same as a B in an honors class...theoretically...</p>
<p>b<em>s</em>bowser is a little bit off as well...
a 100% is a 4, 90% is a 3 etc... so a 92% = 3.2, and 84% = 2.4 etc....</p>
<p>that is a good question... how do you calculate your unweighted GPA from your weighted one?</p>
<p>depends on what the weight is...my schools is +1.3 percent for every ap, so i just subtract (1.3)(no. of ap classes)..and then the gpa can be converted to the 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>1.3? Are they allowed to do that? That's pretty neat...</p>
<p>I think the OP, on a UW scale of 4, would have a GPA of 3.6 (assuming 3.5 = 90).</p>
<p>wait... but a 3.5 = an 85% ... I am certain, because the minimum you have to maintain UW for our chapter of the NHS is a 3.5...</p>
<p>Wait, don't forget that some classes are more credits than others. For example, at my DD's HS, Honors Biology is a six-credit class--five credits for the regular class that meets five times per week plus one credit for the lab that meets once a week. </p>
<p>Her basic-computing class (a school requirement) meets four times a week, around the lab.</p>
<p>So the bio class counted for six points out of the total number of credits she was carrying that year, and the computer class counted for four. Plus the bio class, b/c it was honors, was weighted plus 1.0. So she earned an A in that class and that became like a 5.0 (4.0 plus 1.0) x 6, and the computer class, where she got a B, remained a 3.0 x 4. If you were just doing the weighted average for those two classes you'd get....</p>
<p>30 plus 12 equals 42 divided by 10
so her weighted average for the two classes would be 4.2</p>
<p>The unweighted average for those two would be 3.6.</p>
<p><em>head swims</em> you are talking about college credits... In high school, all the classes meet 5 days /week and are worth the same number of credits. then you just tack on honors gpa-happiness points... At least at my school... I am certain...</p>
<p>How do I calculate a weighted GPA from an unweighted one?</p>
<p>look at your transcript (or remember all the classes youve taken so far) then multiply your gpa by that number
now add 1 for every honors class you have taken
now divide that new number by the number of classes you have taken
tada! thats your weighted gpa</p>
<p>in my school A=4, B+=3.5,B=3,C+=2.5, C=2, D=1 F=0</p>
<p>for weighted in my school a honors or AP class counts as 5 instead of 4 if u get an A....4 instead of 3 if u get a B etc....</p>
<p>If I calculate it like this am I correct?
Anything 93-100 equals a 4
Anything 90-92 equals a 3.7 </p>
<p>I'm not sure below that, but is that wrong</p>
<p>well, as far as i know, it goes more like this:
100 = 4.0
99= 3.9
98= 3.8 etc....
I might be wrong as well, i really dont know, to be honest
but i think that's how it works...</p>
<p>Nice question huh?
I think that we need a real adcom from a top school to tell us what's going on...
From what I think, they probably just look at your transcript and can tell what's going on etc..</p>