Someone once told me that if you have a rigorous course load, a B each semester would be fine for top schools because your weighted GPA would still be pretty high. However, this would mean that your weighted GPA would be lower right? So I was wondering which GPA colleges look at more.
Like http://admission.stanford.edu/basics/selection/profile.html
where it says “High School GPA Ranges”, are they talking about weighted or unweighted?
Is it even possible to get above a 4.0 for unweighted… haha
If you take a lot of hard classes and get B’s, your unweighted GPA would be low while your weighted GPA would be high.
If you have a rigorous course load, you still need at least mostly A’s to be considered competitive for top schools.
Top colleges generally look at your transcript instead of the GPAs. I think that unweighted matters more as it basically tells you how many non A’s the student received, and the course rigor can be determined by just looking at the classes on the transcript.
It depends on the school. Very competitive applicant pools (such as Stanford) will be rife with people getting As in al those weighted classes – yet +90% of them will still be rejected.
Some public schools do not evaluate weighted GPAs in an effort to level the playing field for kids from poorer school districts. I discovered this when my kiddo was looking at area colleges.