<p>“I would definitely be mad if someone who didnt take any rigorous courses was ranked higher than me if for example we got the same grades. The system that you have wherever you live that doesn’t weight according to the rigor of the course seems extremely stupid in my opinion because a student would not have the incentive to take harder classes bc he or she would like to be high in class rank.”
My school does note rank because of the difference in the difficulty of the courses we take and to calculate a class rank just isn’t far for us. Different people take different type of classes, some do the IB programs, some don’t. It is difficult to if Organic Chemistry is harder than AP Physics, or is Linear more difficult than AP Gov. It is too difficult to determine which class is harder especially cause most of the kids take extremely tough classes.</p>
<p>“The reason for weighted grades is simply for that reason; students dont want to feel cheated by taking harder courses.”</p>
<p>Also note that colleges don’t care much about GPA, they care more about the individual grades in each class and the class you take. Some schools don’t calculate GPA, some do, some calculate them differently, some use a 5.0 grading scale, some use 4.0. And I speak that from a fact, not my opinion because colleges post them on the websites that even says so. Also note there is a reason why on your application there are two check boxes “this GPA is <strong>Weighted <em>Unweighted" after it says "the student GPA is </em></strong> on a 4.0 grading scale” (something like that). They do that so they know if you are using a weighted system or not. And I would actually like to know which GPA your counselors put down on that line where they ask for your GPA because I know that all my friends that go to different schools that have weighted GPA says that the counselors put down the unweighted GPA. </p>
<p>“you can’t simply make a bold statement that wharton does not care about weighted gpa because one, you dont work for the admissions office, and two, your relying on what you see and hear about students in your area. The admissions officer will get a profile on how each school weights and they take that into consideration.”</p>
<p>You simply can’t say that they don’t because “you dont work for the admissions office”. Also I would like you to know that I know somebody that worked for the admissions office at a top university (University of Michigan) and he is my counselor. He pretty much described to me the whole entire process and he said that GPA doesn’t matter as much as your individual grade in each class and the difficulty of your course.</p>