Do Ivys recalculate your GPA?

Applying to College
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<p>Specifically Columbia and UPenn... If it's an UW gpa on the 100-point scale that your school provides in a transcript.</p>

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<p>Most all selective schools “normalize” all GPAs so that they can compare across the board for all students. They have to do so because there are some strange scales out there. The weightings are usually removed, and the difficulty of courses are reflected in another category.</p>

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<p>So if I have a 93-93.5 UW is that something in the range or is it too low?</p>

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<p>For Pete’s sake, how many times do you intend to ask this question?</p>

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<p>Some do. Some don’t.</p>

<p>Small differences in the ones place don’t really matter.</p>

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<p>elnamo: why are you even on CC right now? These threads plus a continual and insufferable stream of “chance me” posts. I count EIGHT CHANCE ME THREADS today – and you’ve already applied… Really? This is bordering on the pathetic.</p>

<p>Go live your life. You can’t alter a single thing with your posts. What’s done is done. Be happy with it, come what may. Really, will the school you attend in Sept or not shatter the earth? Go enjoy your life. It’s passing you by as you worry about something you’ve not had control over for a long time.</p>

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<p>Also, they are not likely to look at the GPA printed by the high school. They may just holistically look at the courses and grades on the transcript if they do not recalculate the GPA.</p>

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<p>First of all, it’s not just your average that they eyeball. They look to see what your range is. And, yes, that is a low average for Columbia and PEnn, especially Columbia. The kids who get into COloumbia who are not recruited athletes from our school have over a 95 average with not a single mark below 93. It may even be as high as a 97 average. It’s only the top ten or so kids in the school that get in academically there and at the most selective schools.</p>

<p>A good indicator is to look at Naviance or other such program for your high school and see what the grades and test scores are for those who have successfully been accepted at such colleges. Looking at some clusters for my son’s high school, it’s pretty clear if a student is in the running or his numbers are definitely outside the “accept” cluster. Or ask your counselo how your grades and course load stack up to those kids who were accepted to selecitvie schools like C and P.</p>

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<p>Walrus: I think those two are the same thing. But isn’t a GPA calculated such that 4.0=A (95), 3.0=B (85), etc., (so a 93 would be a 3.8)?</p>

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<p>elnamo, </p>

<p>You’re the second member in the past week that is fixated on the minutia of how colleges are going to calculate their gpa. Please think about this: you’re not the first student to apply to colleges from a HS that uses a 100 pt scale. Adcoms have been normalizing different grading systems for years. Your concern should be making the best grades you can, not worrying about whether you are going to get 1/100 more or less depending on how it is calculated.</p>