<p>Can you help figure out my daughter's GPA, we are totally confused. She has one honors course in 9th grade and two college classes.</p>
<p>I will only list relevant classes for GPA purposes:</p>
<p>9th</p>
<p>English H A A- 10 Credits
Spanish 2 A+ A 10 Credits
Geometry A- A 10 Credits
Earth Sci B A- 10 Credits</p>
<p>10th</p>
<p>English A A 10 Credits
W. History A A 10 Credits
Algebra 2 A A 10 Credits
Biology A- A 10 Credits
Psych A 5 Credits
Geography A 5 Credits
Visual Arts A 10 Credits</p>
<p>11th</p>
<p>English A A 10 Credits
Creative Writ A A 10 Credits
US History A A 10 Credits
Statistics A A 10 Credits
Chemistry A A 10 Credits</p>
<p>12th</p>
<p>Economics B+ 5 Credits
US Govermt B 5 Credits
English B B 10 Credits</p>
<p>I do not know how to figure in the two college classes she took while in high school, into the GPA- two semester courses A and A- , both social science classes, 3 college credits each and she received 10 high school credits.</p>
<p>And, what is weighted vrs. weighted? If a college asked for her GPA, do you give them weighted/unweighted and do you figure in the college courses?</p>
<p>Since she’s getting HS credit for them, can you ask your HS GC how they calculate it? They should be able to tell you both the UW and W (if they weight) gpas.</p>
<p>She really doesn’t have a counselor she can go talk to, it’s a long story. At the very least, should she figure her 9th grades classes into her basic GPA, I know for CA public schools they do not…but what about other schools?</p>
<p>UC and CSU will count college, AP, and honors courses taken in 10th and 11th grades with +1 weighting, up to a maximum of 8 semesters of +1 honors points.</p>
<p>A school which looks holistically at the transcript will probably find several “defects”:</p>
<p>a. No math beyond algebra 2, which means that she will not be calculus-ready in college.
b. No physics – colleges prefer seeing all three of biology, chemistry, and physics.
c. Downward trend – B grades in senior year after A grades previously.
d. If honors courses were available, the lack of such on the transcript will be seen as shying away from the most rigorous curriculum.
e. Only second level of foreign language – unless she has provable fluency and literacy otherwise, that could be a problem at a school that prefers to see completion of the third or fourth level.</p>
<p>Actually she took Statistics and was lucky she got an A in that class-math is not her thing and no, she is not calculus ready</p>
<p>It is a long story as I previously stated but her school program did not offer honors courses or language courses–and she did not want to take Physics…instead she took two college courses hoping to bolster her ability to perform college level work.</p>
<p>And yes, she did have a downward trend as a senior, part because of seniorits and part because she completed her 12th grade classes in a shortened period of time.</p>
<p>We know that her curriculum is not stellar–we are just trying to figure out where she can realistically get into…she has a few acceptances for spring and is trying to decide if she should wait and apply to some more selective colleges in the fall. But, as you stated, she is lacking a bit on the classes she has competed and are not quite sure what to do.</p>
<p>So back to my question again, does she count each college class as one or two grades, her HS gave her credit for two high school semesters, so do we figure A=5 credits A=5 credits plus 2 honors points per college class to calculate it into her GPA? (An additional 4 A’s as 10 credits + 4 honors points)</p>
<p>In my school, college classes don’t factor into GPA(Which led to the humorous trend of most of the top 10% not taking them since it would knock them out of the valedictorian race), but colleges do like to see the transcript, I believe.</p>
<p>It would depend on the school. Our high school does not do +s or -s. Just A, B, C, So an unweighted A would be a 4. My understanding is that most colleges usually wnat to know the unweighted grade and then apply their own weighting to it (understandably as so many school districts have so many completely ways of weighting classes)</p>
<p>Does an unweighted GPA include no +'s or -'s, and no other credit for AP, honors or college courses (while taken in HS)…this is what you report to a college when they request the applicants GPA? </p>
<p>And then a weighted GPA is done by colleges including all the about including +'s and -'s?</p>
<p>The “weighting” is defined by the school. HSs have tremendous variation in weighting which leads many colleges to calculate their own weighted GPA. Unweighted is pure A/B/C/D = 4/3/2/1 times the number of credits for each grade. 9th grade is included. I know UCs exclude 9th grade.</p>