<p>Does Cornell recalculate high school GPAs to take out the weights for AP and Honors courses? [If so, does their scale have +/- grades? What is the highest point value on their scale? Do they count gym and health classes towards your GPA?]</p>
<p>I'm wondering about this because it works out for the better, and I want clarification because one of my teachers made a general statement that colleges recalculate GPAs to level the playing field, and they also take out gym and health classes.</p>
<p>Thanks
Tux</p>
<p>well i figure they take out gym classes and health....but idk about that</p>
<p>Each college has a school fact file though, at least for my school it lists the average number of classes a student takes, the advanced ones offered as well as the amount of students with what gpa, what SAT and ACT score i.e. 20 had 3.6 gpas and >4 had ACTs over 30 etc</p>
<p>that is how i think they compare students...on that scale. Basically if a kid has a D in physics and the other 10 kids have As, the college will see that the kid should not be in physics. same with GPA.</p>
<p>at least, that is what they do to show colleges at my school....</p>