<p>If I have a 3.57 uw gpa for freshman year, and get all A's for the rest of high school (or til it's time to apply to colleges), what would my overall uw gpa be? Thanks alot.</p>
<p>depends on your school's grading scale...</p>
<p>And it depends on how many classes you take...</p>
<p>I'd guess all A's would be a 4.00 GPA, no? The number of classes wouldn't matter unless you take more classes one year than another.</p>
<p>(Freshman GPA + sophomore GPA + junior GPA) / 3 should be your overall GPA by application time.</p>
<p>(3.57 + 4.00 + 4.00) / 3 = 3.86.</p>
<p>^Chances are the op might not have the same number of classes one semester/year.</p>
<p>And even if the op does, that doesn't factor in 1st semester senior year for reg. decision schools.</p>
<p>Well, we'll assume that she does take the same number of courses each year. I'm pretty sure that that's the norm, although of course schools do exist at which that is not the case. </p>
<p>How is first semester of senior year taken into account? I suppose it'd be (freshman + sophomore + junior + .5(senior)) / 3.5, which in her case would come out to ~3.88.</p>
<p>in the end, it rounds up to 3.9</p>
<p>Sorry I didn't make my first post very clear. I'm just trying to get an idea on the highest possible GPA I could have from my current one.
I'm not 100% sure on how the cumulative GPA thing usually works, which is why I asked this. I would take the same number of classes each year. The best I could do (though unlikely) is get all A's (4.0) for the next three years. With this, what would be the UW GPA college admissions would see?</p>
<p>3.86 if they just take into account freshman, sophomore, and junior year; 3.88 if they also look at the first semester of your senior year. </p>
<p>Not bad at all. :]</p>
<p>3.86 would be the highest after the end of junior year if you take the same number of credits/year.</p>
<p>If it's unweighted, doesn't it mean all A's =4.0? How would the number of courses affect anything? It'll still be a 4.0, wouldn't it?</p>
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If it's unweighted, doesn't it mean all A's =4.0? How would the number of courses affect anything? It'll still be a 4.0, wouldn't it?
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All A's for the year would mean a 4.0 in that year, but not necessarily a 4.0 for the entire three years. Taking more courses in one year and getting all A's will add more weight to the 4.0, so the final gpa will be higher.</p>
<p>Your GPA would be: X</p>
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All A's for the year would mean a 4.0 in that year, but not necessarily a 4.0 for the entire three years. Taking more courses in one year and getting all A's will add more weight to the 4.0, so the final gpa will be higher.
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Sorry if I'm reading too hastily or incorrectly but this does not answer my question at all; of course if you don't get all A's it won't be 4.0 for all three years. I meant unweighted GPA, no matter how many courses, all A's=4.0, isn't it?</p>
<p>So I thought this
<a href="3.57%20+%204.00%20+%204.00">quote</a> / 3 = 3.86.
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was how it would be. Can you explain a bit more, because I really am not sure about grade calculations or how weighted/unweighted/course #, blah blah works.</p>
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Sorry if I'm reading too hastily or incorrectly but this does not answer my question at all; of course if you don't get all A's it won't be 4.0 for all three years. I meant unweighted GPA, no matter how many courses, all A's=4.0, isn't it?
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I think I answered your question. Yes, if you get all A's in a given year, you will have a 4.0 for the year. That's what I said in the first half of my first sentence in the earlier post.</p>
<p>And yes, I was referring to the unweighted gpa. You can look at the whole gpa thing where gpa is a linear combination of the individual gpa's in a given year and so gpa = c1x + c2y + c3z, where c1, c2, and c3 are the weights (or # of credits taken) and x, y, and z are the individual gpa's in a given year. Now if you take more classes in year 3 (in this case z) and get all A's, then the weight, c3, will make that 4.0 heavier (or worth more) thus raising the over gpa. Sorry, I'm an engineer. We love to explain everything with math.</p>
<p>Or you can just look at it like this: </p>
<p>Say someone takes 6 courses freshman year, 7 sophomore year, and 8 junior year. I don't know of any school that offers such discrepancies in course numbers, but whatev. </p>
<p>Now, say their freshman year GPA is 3.57 and they get A's from then on. It's not just (3.57 + 4.00 + 4.00) / 3; instead, you would add together EVERY grade and divide it by the TOTAL number of courses, since every class has equal weight (not every school year.) So it would be [6(3.57) + 7(4.00) + 8(4.00)] / 21. </p>
<p>This corresponds to lil_killer's formula; it might be easier to envision with actual numbers.</p>
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I don't know of any school that offers such discrepancies in course numbers, but whatev.
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Freshmen year- 5 classes counted towards gpa (several classes did not)
Junior year- 5 classes
Senior year- 5 classes
Sophomore year- 7 classes
But then again, sophomore year didn't go into my gpa for a few reasons.
So unfortunately, colleges only saw a gpa of freshmen/junior year/senior 1st sem... unless they recalculated it, which would have been difficult...</p>
<p>So the highest GPA I can possible get into college with is 3.86. Thanks.
Man, that's some pressure right there though! I got A's, B's, C's, and even one or two D's last year (it was a horrible year for me as you can tell, but I really can do better and did great on our state test, it's just the effort I have to work on). Now it's like there's no more chances. I HAVE to get straight A's or I probably won't get into the college I want to go to (almost all students get accepted with at LEAST a 3.75, only .11 less that my best possible GPA). This sucks!</p>
<p>But thanks :)</p>