I have a 93.5 average at the moment, weighted (by my high school).
Now, what is that, and how do colleges go about weighting/re-weighting, etc.?
<p>The GPA system varies from school to school. Some use a 100 point scale (like yours), while other use a 4 or a 6 point scale. Each school also weights grades a different way. Some give +10 pts (on toe 100 pt scale). Others give +.5 points or +1 point etc.</p>
<p>It is a complete myth that college myth or reweight or any such thing. What some college WILL do is conver your grading system into an index number of some sort. However, it is not like the 93.5 is converted to a GPA # used at another high school. Rather, even those GPA #s used at other schools are converted to some type of common scale.</p>
<p>The honest answer is that your question cannot be answered generally. Each school does it differently.</p>
<p>Most schools won't get to recalculation if rank is provided. As you can see here using the AI calculator that is used by the ivies:
<a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm</a></p>
<p>As you can see, the GPA calculation is the least favored by colleges, and your high school should provide your rank if they wish to be helpful to your college admissions changes, since the GPA conversion usually results in a lower AI.</p>
<p>Actually, there are a few schools that will completely recalculate your GPA, throwing out non-core academic courses and weighing grades in a consistant way. That said, rank and other factors are probably more important than GPA because they reflect your academic record versus your surroundings.</p>
<p>My score does not rank (other than announcing the val and sal), and it does GPA's on an 8 point scale, where 8=A+ and 1=F, and it all fits in between (no minuses).</p>
<p>Princeton completely recalculates.</p>
<p>so does all the UCs, except that they make YOU recalculate</p>