<p>I got to a school that offers only Honors and AP classes, so my weighted GPA is much higher than my unweighted..</p>
<p>I have around a 3.2-3.3 UW, but a 4.1 or so weighted!</p>
<p>Help me out.. Thanks!</p>
<p>Because weighting systems vary so widely from school to school, and some school don't weight at all, stats listed for schools are unweighted grades. Many schools will take your grades, the difficulty of your classes and come up with their own GPA.</p>
<p>This happens all the time. </p>
<p>I will give you an example of the Columbia Application with regards to this issue. </p>
<p>You list both unweighted and weighted GPA. You list your rank or percentage in class.</p>
<p>You also list the highest GPA in your school, both weighted and unweighted. </p>
<p>Then your guidance counselor ranks how tough your workload is.</p>
<p>With all these general statistics, colleges can get a general idea of how good your grades are. Plus, you send your transcript anyway, and your grades are listed there, so you cannot hide any bad grades.</p>
<p>is that only for core classes^?</p>
<p>OP, if you really want to know the answer to your question, call an admissions officer at all of the schools in which you are interested and ask the question directly.</p>
<p>Three schools we visited this summer:</p>
<p>Oklahoma City University: uses weighted GPA for admissions; unweighted for merit aid</p>
<p>Trinity University: uses unweighted GPA for all purposes</p>
<p>Southwestern University: uses weighted GPA for all purposes</p>
<p>If you look at the websites of those schools, I don't think you will find any mention of unweighted vs. weighted. We only found out the difference by asking directly while on campus.</p>
<p>Colleges vary and methods include the following: (a) relying on weighted GPA; (b) relying on class rank and not GPA; (c) relying on rank and weighted or unweighted GPA; (d) taking unweighted GPA and then applying their own weighting system; (e) use only sophomore and junior year grades, apply prescribed college weighting system and limit the number of weighted courses that will be considered, i.e., if you have have 20 semesters of APs/honors, they might count only 12 for weighting (UCs have that type of system). There are others. Note also that many will consider only grades in college prep courses -- math, lab science, foreign language, social studies, and English -- and other grades are ignored.</p>