<p>Not that I'd ever get into one, but would prestigious universities consider your academic core GPA or your cumulative GPA ?</p>
<p>My school has three GPAs
Cumulative
Academic core
Weighted</p>
<p>I believe I’ve most frequently heard that they care about your academic GPA, but I’m not sure about weighted vs. non-weighted (my school doesn’t do GPA so I don’t usually pay attention when the adcoms talk about it… ^.^)</p>
<p>Highly selective schools generally recalculate using their own weighting system that only includes academic classes and some (e.g. Stanford) focus primarily on 10th-12th year grades.</p>
<p>I’m assuming most of them use something similar to a 1.5x for honors, 2x for AP/IB.</p>
<p>They will take your unweighted gpa and also take into account how many AP/honors classes you took to calculate a weighted gpa</p>
<p>Is academic gpa the 5 core - Math, Science, History, English, and Fine Arts?<br>
Does it matter the A received 90, 95, 100 </p>
<p>P.S. UC system limits AP bump to 8 classes.</p>
<p>Here’s a UC calculator: <a href=“GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub”>http://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/</a> </p>
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Substitute foreign language for fine arts.</p>
<p>They do not focus on 12th grade year as admissions (early) decisions are made often before even the 1st semester of 12th grade is complete.</p>
<p>Academic core is code for smart kids who don’t like or participate in PE/Art/Music who don’t want those ‘grades’ to hurt them. Schools look at the big picture. Some will care more than others about the non-academic subjects, but best to just do well at everything. If you have to manipulate your scores to get a good score, you likely will not get in anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m just saying, I want to see which of my GPAs is most accurate but I guess I’ll just have to see how the college weights them. Thanks everyone @Torveaux @skieurope @Kreig01 @ormdad @LAMuniv </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.possibilityu.com/how-calculate-your-“real”-high-school-gpa”>http://www.possibilityu.com/how-calculate-your-“real”-high-school-gpa</a>
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<p>Would classes like economics (not AP) or other electives count?</p>
<p>@PMoney1 economics in my high school is counted as a core subject class, so mine would. Luckily my college already accounts for my academic core gpa which is a 4.0 as of junior year!! Yay</p>
<p>@Marrissa Congratz, I got a 4.0 academic core GPA Junior year but didn’t do as well Freshman and Sophomore years</p>
<p>Well I think it only matters what your final core GPA is @Pmoney1 although they will most likely look at freshman and sophomore year they will see the improvement, good luck and congrats to you too :)</p>
<p>@Marrissa thanks and good luck to you too</p>
<p>No one here considered that they might just look at your transcript? Ha. Since OP mentioned Ivies, where do you get the info that they all recalculate? In general, the cores, plus rigor are the most important, unweighted grades. But the Ivies will look at everything in their reviews. The UCs have their own ways. </p>
<p>Am I correct in assuming that most large public universities, due to the sheer volume of applications, go with whatever GPA is reported on the transcript, while selective-but-not-Ivy-level LACs (my daughter’s target) would be more likely to re-calculate?</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused by the transcript that my daughter’s high school currently has posted on-line. The GPA appears to include classes going back as far as 7th grade, as long as they were “high school-level” classes. I hate the notion (if I’m correct) that grades she received in Spanish as a 12 year old will drag down her GPA. She’s also in that in-between category where the A grades she receives in band and PE help her un-weighted GPA, but hurt her weighted GPA, as they are neither Honors nor AP.</p>
<p>Some colleges recalculate- eg, this from UC: In calculating the GPA for admission consideration, UC uses all UC-approved “a-g” courses a student took between the summer before 10th grade through the summer following 11th grade. Additionally, UC will grant up to eight semesters (with no more than four semesters coming from 10th grade) of honors weight for grades of C or better in AP, IB, UC-approved Honors Level, and transferable college courses. They also tell about out of state,</p>
<p>No one has yet pointed to any statement from, say, an Ivy, that they recalculate. The exception is athletes; Ivy teams/recruits need to meet the standards of the Academic Index.</p>
<p>You can look at a sample Common App GC report (School Report.) They ask for Cumulative GPA, the scale, and the period that covers (mm/yyyy.) The standard is the high school years- classes in 9th-12th. Some hs will include summer school or certain DE in the gpa, some don’t. An adcom can see from the transcript when that the B was in gym versus a core or AP class. Whether they care or not about PE or Band, Chorus, Student Leadership Class, local history, etc, will depend on the college.</p>
<p>It’s good to ask the GC his or her policies. And make sure you check online for the colleges’ recommended number of years of various subjects. With very rare exceptions, that also refers to 9-12. Some schools don’t consider grades in 9th, that’s usually on their web pages.</p>
<p>I think for adcom readers, the exact GPA reported is not that important. Rather they have read thousands of transcripts. By just browsing the transcript, they can immediately tell how your course loads and balances look, what you are good and not good at, whether you purposely try to skip some subjects, etc. They may even be able to predict a GPA intuitively that’s probably very close to the real number.</p>
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~10 years ago, a columnist for the WSJ contacted several selective colleges and asked about their GPA calculations. Their responses are listed at <a href=“http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB105899458688282900”>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB105899458688282900</a> . Among ivies, the responses were:</p>
<p>Penn – Only counts “solid-level courses,” which include math, English, social studies, foreign languages and science.</p>
<p>Yale – Doesn’t recalculate. Rather, “to the best of our ability, our officers just have to understand the nature of the school and their reporting structure,” says Richard Shaw, dean of admissions and financial aid.</p>
<p>Columbia – Doesn’t do any recalculation of the GPA.</p>