<p>How USC calculates GPA? What do they weight/not weight?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>non-weighted. They switched to it this year.</p>
<p>Wait....So that 3.8 figure that they came up with is unweighted (4 pts for A, 3 pts for B..) There is something fishy about that. It really seems sky-high. I mean Johns Hopkins' is 3.67, and Dartmouth is about 3.7...Any explanation..?</p>
<p>USC also only looks at core courses, iI believe. I don't know how JHU and Dartmouth do it.</p>
<p>Yeah, USC won't give me any credit for AP Underwater Basket Weaving, so I'm inclined to think it's core courses only:(</p>
<p>So do JHU and Dartmouth...
Does it go to unweighted this year, and it was weighted last year? Is that what redski meant?</p>
<p>ugh my unweighted GPA sucks...3.5...mainly b/c I took all AP classes and got some A's, but some B's in them...everything else is good, but does this mean i'm completely screwed for USC?</p>
<p>No. Just because they don't do weighted GPAs does not mean they don't consider the difficulty of the curriculum. You should still be fine.</p>
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<p>You will need to do some digging around to find the acutal average GPA which I believe hovers around 3.8 (not 4.0!!!! :eek: )</p>