<p>I dunno if they recalculate GPA, but they know that that's the way your school grades. It will be sent in a report from the school. They will probably look at individual class grades on your transcript, or at your class rank, to more accurately assess you.</p>
<p>if your school weights for AP classes, they will take the weight out. However, they will look at the grading scale and surely take that into consideration.</p>
<p>Most recalculate but they only do it to their own wieghts and/or to change it to a purely academic GPA.
But they aren't gonna look at your number grades and try to change the letter grades shown on your transcript. </p>
<p>Like if one kid who goes to a school where a 90-100 is an "A"has a academic transcript of A, A, A, A, A and you have an academic transcript of A, B (90), B (92), A, A, the other kid will have a higher recalculated grade (assuming that the class levels are equal and so any additional wieghting would be equal).</p>
<p>At least on my transcript, the Number grade for the class isnt even on there, so the college wouldn't know the number grade and couldn't do anything about it anyways.
and you ha</p>
<p>I read somewhere (on Stanford's website a couple of years ago) that they recalculate your GPA by eliminating your freshman grades from GPA consideration. I don't know whether this is still true (hope so!)</p>
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Like if one kid who goes to a school where a 90-100 is an "A"has a academic transcript of A, A, A, A, A and you have an academic transcript of A, B (90), B (92), A, A, the other kid will have a higher recalculated grade (assuming that the class levels are equal and so any additional wieghting would be equal).
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<p>Waitwaitwait, but how is that fair???</p>
<p>If my school graded on 90-100 = A, I would have a 4.0 UW GPA! Instead, we have 93-100 = A. I can't even count how many 92s I've gotten... argh. I should also add that the teachers at my school never give out extra credit and only very rarely curve.</p>
<p>How can colleges know that you did just as well as the straight-A student on a ten-point scale if your school that goes by the seven-point scale only reports letter grades (A, B, C, etc.)?</p>
<p>Its not fair, but there really isn't anything a college can do about it...
all they know is that say an 86-93 or whatever is a B and a 93 to 100 or whatever it is is an A. Number grades aren't on the transcript so how would they know the difference between a B 87 or a B 92?</p>
<p>alamode is right, all they see is your letter grade. They will know what grading range the school uses but in reality, they don't know your number grade so they won't be able to do much recalculation. This is why the SAT is a necessity. You should be able to score similar to that "other" student so in that way you'll be able to compete with the other grading systems.</p>
<p>I know for sure that UF does recalculate. When i was applying for honors, i submitted a 4.01 GPA as calculates by my school, which while weighted, weights the same as UF claims to do, meaning 4.0 for an A in college prep, 4.5 in honors, and 5.0 in AP. However, UF recalculated my GPA as a 3.6. The honors college requires a 4.0.</p>
<p>also, i think class rank (jf your HS doesn't you can still get approximate range from their info) is more important than straight GPA. as long as you're up there it shouldnt make a big difference.
if youre really worried, talk to your GC about it- see what your transcript will look like, etc.</p>
<p>“Moreover, we only get 0.5 added to the GPA if we take AP Classes
(I hear that some other, or more than some, give 1 point added to the GPA)”</p>
<p>I am not sure what u mean. My school only adds 0.1 for each AP class if you get A , so for each semester (2) I would get 0.05 if I get As.</p>
<p>“Yea, and I hear that most of the other counties use the standard
grading scale, where A starts from 90, not 94 like we do.”</p>
<p>My school rounds up everything. If it’s A- on transcript it will be counted as A in total grade. So as all colleges round up transcripts’ grades. They don’t look at B+, or B-. It’s B = 4</p>
<p>It is very unlikely that any college that uses GPA in admissions will use your high school’s notion of weighted GPA. State universities are likely to recalculate by their own method; very selective private schools using holistic admissions processes will likely just eyeball the transcript to see that you took a rigorous selection of courses and got mostly A grades.</p>
<p>Colleges that do use class rank as calculated by your high school do indirectly trust your high school’s notion of GPA, although only in comparison to other students from the same high school.</p>