Do you have any support for this statement?
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there are websites, articles, videos, and hundreds of college counselors who tell parents and students that colleges will recalculate high school GPA’s because of the inconsistency of high school grading.
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Many of my kids did. Arizona. UGA. UF. Schools that use an SRAR type document like Miami of Ohio. They tell u this. Or you can see it on the doc.
Schools sort of have to given the disparity of systems.
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But that in no way implies that the majority of them do. Also, you give a very specific system. The UC System is one of the few that I have seen actually publish what they do and it doesn’t follow your system
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This IS just like the UC system “Core” A-G classes, no pluses or minuses, weight only for AP and IB (and select honors for in state.)
Edit: Given all the multiple examples above it makes perfect sense that universities would recalculate with a common approach - how else could they compare?
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No, the UC System has no +0.5 classes.
Agreed. It’s a reason I hope the admissions counselors really do recalculate GPA because the grading scales can vary so dramatically. I believe our school district finally got in line with a more traditional grading scale starting with last year’s freshman class which will be used for those kids going forward.
That is true, no .5. The larger issue is that recalculation happens, and UC is an example. And, recalculation is likely at many colleges given the disparity of GPA calculations at high schools.
You might need a reach school, for example, because they might meet your family’s financial need without loans.
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why does the OP have to justify their question to you? What’s wrong with having their own reasons to reach?
What was the bait and switch college?
Thanks for being one of the only ones to attempt to answer the OPs question
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They don’t. The kid has to sell themselves to the college as to why the school should choose them over any others.
And reach means different things to different people. And different schools want different things. Context helps.
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So, like, did your 3.5- 3.9 GPA child get into their REACH school? What was it?
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oh so you were thinking they don’t know that. gotcha.
I am in Florida here is our Flagship UF Weighted GPA recalculation
GPA Recalculation Process
The above range represents the core, weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale that UF calculates as part of the evaluation process. Dual-enrollment courses in core areas and any AP, IB or AICE classes receive an extra 1.0 credit weight, meaning that an A is worth a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale. Pre-AICE, pre-AP, pre-IB and Honors classes receive a 0.5 credit weight, meaning that an A is worth a 4.5 on a 4.0 scale.
UC System UCLA#1 ranked Public, Largest State Population and University System
Types of GPAs
All GPAs are calculated from courses completed in grades 10 and 11.
- The fully weighted GPA includes an extra grade point for all UC-approved honors courses (which include AP, IB, school-based honors and transferable college courses) in which a grade of C or higher is earned. The maximum value possible is 5.00.
- The unweighted GPA does not include any extra grade points for honors courses. The maximum value possible is 4.00.
Here is a Weighted GPA Generic article
Then there was my D’s HS which a 92.4 was considered a B+ and weighed at 3.3, and no additional weight given to a AP over an honors class.
The important thing is not that the colleges re-calculate, although many do, it’s that a HS school report goes with the transcript so adcoms are able to understand the school’s grading system.
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of course, to be fair, my kiddo has one B according to his high school’s grading system. But if his school counted a 92 as less than a 4.0 then his GPA would be lower. On the flip side, if his high school counted a 98 as a 4.3 unweighted then that would counter any 3.7. Our high school also shows his weighted GPA as 5.6 - which means zilch really.
That is a tough grading! We always strive for the 89.5 which rolls up to the 4.0. 
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we are big fans of the 92.5, but now that I know that most schools consider an A- the same as an A, our house will have the same goal as yours! I never understood before how so many kids on CC had a 4.0!
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My D22’s HS grades out of 100. No 4.0 scale. 90+ is an A, 80-89 B, 70-79 C, and anything lower F. For weighted, they add 7 points to the grade for honors, AP and DE. An interesting thing about DE is that the HS converts an A there to a 95 unweighted.