<p>Is it true that many colleges/universities overlook a weighted GPA? Even if ALL of your classes are the most rigorous ones offered? If so, why?</p>
<p>Yea, most colleges don’t look at weighted gpa, since each high school will place different gpa boost on AP vs IB vs honor courses. So, weighted gpa’s from different high schools won’t be comparable. However, colleges do look at your transcript to take into account the rigor of your courses, and will give you credit for taking a rigorous schedule.</p>
<p>Well that’s good and bad I guess. Good that they take rigor into account, bad that my unweighted GPA is WAY less than my weighted one lol. UW: 3.5, W: 4.46. I have all IB/AP classes. Also, do they take in account basic school structure like how I have 7 periods everyday while many other schools may have block schedules, hence, more time in their classes etc.?</p>
<p>They probably won’t care about the schedule, just the grades. I believe that mainly the top colleges look at unweighted gpa (for better comparison) and they DEFINITELY look at course rigor. Non-top schools look at weighted, but your schools sends a report to the schools so they can understand the weighted scale. Class rank is also used (normally reported in deciles) to help better understand how you do in context.</p>
<p>^That is really weird and I never thought of that before. I really do hope they take that into consideration</p>
<p>The admissions people at the school top 20 school my S1 attended said quite clearly that their admissions office recalculated all applicants’ gpa on a 4.0 scale and included academic classes only. The school then also calculated a score for the rigor of the applicant’s curriculum and put the two scores together according to its own formula. The school also considered the academic environment of each applicant, so that a student in a school without a lot of AP offerings did not suffer…although they also looked at what such an applicant did to enrich her own environment.</p>
<p>GPA is a complete rip off if all schools don’t use the GPA. I’m going to give two examples.</p>
<p>Situation 1
-Student “A” and Student “B” have the EXACT same (number) grades.
-Student A is on a 10-point grading scale while Student B is on a 7-point.
-It is VERY possible for Student A to have a 4.0, while Student B has a 3.3.</p>
<p>Situation 2.
-Student A, Student B, and Student C have the EXACT same (number) grades.
-Student A is on a 10-point scale, Student B is on a 7-point scale, and here is Student C’s scale:
-----A: 80-100
-----B: 70-80
-----C: 60-70
-----D: 50-60
-----F: Below 50 (Yes, I have seen grading scales like this).
-Student A has a 3.5, Student B has a 2.7, and Student C has a 4.0. How is this fair at all?</p>
<p>Haha thats a good point. There isnt difference only between various schools but within the schools as well. Some teachers are far harder and grade harsher. An A in one subject in one class in that school could be a C+ in another cause of the difficulty of teachers.</p>
<p>Its too hard to compare.</p>
<p>^ Exactly! My English teach for Freshman and Sophomore year told us at our freshman orientation that she rarely gave A’s and if she did they were low</p>
<p>I was at a college admissions thingy for UMass Amherst and they said that they kind of having their own weighting system and add a certain amount of honors classes and a larger amount for college courses. Seemed like a good idea to me.</p>