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she has 2C+.
she has done 1 AP in 10th. and 4 APs in 11th and is doing 5 AP senior year.
out of 4

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But you’re not adding her senior year gpa, correct?

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no. only a month and half since school started

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What is your school’s weighting for honors classes?

For example, my daughter has a 3.7 UW and a 4.07 W. That GPA includes 7 honors classes with a .5 bump and 5 IB classes with a 1.0 bump, for a difference of not quite .4 between the UW and the W.

Your spread seems very high.

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Because just about every high school has a different way to calculate weighted GPA. Some colleges recompute GPA for all applicants using a uniform formula.

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This explains the unusually high weighted GPA. I’m no expert, but I’ve never seen a full point for honors classes. And, a 1.5 bump for AP with a test.
A C+ in AP w a test gets a shocking 4.17. It seems like a very generous weighting scale. Curious on others experience.

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You are right. That’s why colleges ask school profile and school report as well I guess so students are compared with others from same school


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Actually it is so the colleges know the context in which your kid studied in high school. Your student won’t be compared to others in the same school
but the colleges will have a better idea of how your student compares to others at their high school.

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Thanks . I dont understand the last statement. isnt it the same thing? I always thought students in same school applying to same college get compared.

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You kid’s application will be based on its own merits

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My understanding is that colleges DO care approximately where each applicant is ranked in relation to their entire high school class, e.g. top 1%, top 10%, top 25% etc.

What colleges do DON’T care about is where the applicants from a particular high school rank in comparison to each other. In other words it’s not like they say “Oh we have 3 applicants from Graniteville High School: John, Billy and Mary. Since John was ranked highest, he is the one we are letting in.” In other words they do not put the 3 applications side by side and compare them.

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