<p>I noticed many high schools have different GPA systems. Even schools that are just attached to my school have different systems. Our school has a system where no honors classes are weighted except Pre-Calculus (only APs are weighted). It feels so bad when a student from other school gets a 4.1 when they have the same stat as a 3.6 in our school and a 5.0 when they would have a 4.5 in our school. Do colleges seriously deeply look into every single high school and notice the difference of the system and change it to their system (college)? If so, according to what system? .. This just bothered me because when people say a certain GPA on this board, I wasn't sure what type of GPA they were talking about. ^.^</p>
<p>The letter grades are different at a lot of schools, too. In FCPS, 94 is an A. Some places, you only need a 90. Here, that's the lowest you can get and still have it be a B+.</p>
<p>Colleges look at your school's profile to interpret your performance. The likelihood of being hurt by your school's weighting policy is slim to none.</p>
<p>I'd be far more worried about the differences in individual grading (eg, what is A level work at one school is C level at others).</p>
<p>Joseph, I agree with you about the differences in Individual Grading. I've attended 3 different high schools each with different grading. It is a big difference, I earned an 81/100 (B-) in Geometry in my freshman year studying at least 2 hours a night on the subject. I was one of the worst students in the class.<br>
After moving and switching schools (twice after that), I've earned an A+ (100 and most times over) every grading period till now (AlgII/Precal/Calc honors/ap) (and these two schools are supposed to be competitive). Either, I really suck at Geometry, or there is a big difference. It was funny when the guidance counselor at my second school told me that I sucked at math and put me in regular Alg2 where my teacher quickly moved me up. And honors was a joke as well and I just finished the course in 2/3 of the year and did my own stuff. Anyways, this is the topic of my essay :D
I also had ONLY an B+ in my science courses, so that same counselor put me in regular Chem and Bio (because she thought i was stupid and could not handle it. I ended up doing all the work for honors (which was virtually nothing), and making A's and A+s. I did not get "honors credit" though, which is affecting my college application now. Also my second school added three points to the grade if the class was "honors". I'm not sure if it says that in their profile. An insane policy, as the "honors" work was 2-3 "projects" that the teacher pretty much gave everyone 97-100 on.
-I did less than 1 hour of homework a night for everything and made As and A+s. My second school also counted grades in 90s as B+s. But, they wrote the actual numerical grade in the transcript (which my third school translated into their own system for my compiled transcript).
-Third school graded on Gpa as A+4.3 A=4.0 A-=3.7 etc. Harder school, studied 3 hours a night, and still made a 4.1 gpa here. 11th and 12th grade.
-These are all private schools.
-Yeah, they will recalculate your GPA on their scale. Some give all A's 4.0s, some give +,-, some only give - (no A+=4.3). UC has a calculator, I believe.</p>