<p>Just curious, as we wait for EA decisions this month, but does anyone have experience with the results of how Elon recalculates high school GPA? I found methodology in another thread, and they seem fairly generous, with 1 point added for Honors classes and 2 for AP. DD core GPA went from 3.7 to 3.9, assuming I did it right. This could possibly impact Presidential Scholarship and Fellows selection, but of course everyone gets the boost at the same time. Do they change the added points if the HS weights final grades for Honors and AP? Anyone got this figured out?</p>
<p>I hadn’t even thought about the scholarship angle. Now I’m interested too. Son’s UW Core is 3.5+. But his Elon Core is 4.5+. Hmmm. Interesting.</p>
<p>I am wondering now as well. Her GPA weighted as her HS calculates it with .5 added for honors and 1 added for AP she has a 3.7. With the Elon recalculation she has a 4.3.</p>
<p>We will have to see. We didn’t apply for any scholarships since we thought her GPA was below the cut-off. I have to look at all off this again. </p>
<p>Thirteen days until the EA decision!!!</p>
<p>on the other side of that coin, I wonder how they handle schools that have very few AP’s and honors courses…do they penalize the kids who have no/few courses to weight?</p>
<p>That’s a valid point. Kids at schools which offer fewer Honors or AP classes are at a disadvantage, since almost all schools use some weighting in order to even out the differences from school to school and give some objective credit for a student’s more rigorous, challenging curriculum. Hopefully, an adcom can apply some subjective criteria as well when it evaluates a good student who has not had the same opportunities in their school. I wonder, how many high schools these days have little or no AP offered?</p>
<p>^^our HS has 6 AP’s offered, only in senior year…only 1 is open to everyone; others are restricted…but Elon does have familiarity with the school (3 students were accepted ED this year), but I was still curious…guess it’s a good question at an info session…</p>
<p>may also account for the discrepency in recorded GPA’s on another thread…</p>
<p>I know other schools will not add ponts for AP when the HS does already, as ours does. This info may be included in the school profile, and in fact is footnoted on the transcript. It would seem unfair for a college to add more points when recalculating, after a student has already gotten extra points on the HS grade for being in AP. But if Elon should do it, we won’t protest.</p>
<p>Elon uses the same WGPA as all public schools in NC, it’s not unique to Elon. </p>
<p>It quite simply is +1 for honors and +2 for AP. So, getting a C in an AP class gives you a unweighed GPA of 2.0 and a WGPA of 4.0</p>
<p>But grading in North Carolina requires a high grade point to receive a good letter grade.
here is the standard K-12 letter grade/grade point scale
A+ 99 - 100
A 96 - 98
A- 93 - 95
B+ 91 - 92
B 88 - 90
B- 85 - 87
C+ 83 - 84
C 80 - 82
C- 77 - 79
D+ 75 - 76
D 73 - 74
D- 70 - 72
F 0 - 69</p>
<p>Elon then looks at your core classes (no PE) and assigns a WGPA…</p>
<p>Lots of (but not all) NC counties require students complete one or several prerequisite courses (and receive high scores) before a student can take a AP class in the subject (think honors Physics BEFORE you can take AP Physics). So access to AP’s and high WGPA can be very limited. </p>
<p>One more fun fact is that some high schools run Block schedules that allow only 4 classes a semester, so if you want to take an AP you often have to show up for a class at 7am.</p>
<p>I think Elon does a good job of balancing out GPA and studious commitment.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any idea what kind of GPA and test scores you need to have to be competitive for the fellows scholarships (specifically the Elon college fellows and the leadership fellows)?</p>
<p>Qualifying to get into the fellows program is not that hard but being selected also depends on the relative strengths of the other students who apply. It’s fairly common for 400 to apply, 100 to be selected to interview at the spring fellows weekend, and 25 selected to be next years fellows…</p>
<p>Leadership Fellows - Students who are outstanding leaders in their high schools and/or communities, have held one or more leadership positions in organizations, and have a GPA of 3.5 or better and SATs of 1790 (ACT 26) or more.</p>
<p>College Fellows - Students must have completed a rigorous course of study, rank in the top 15 percent of their high school class, and have a GPA of at least 3.7 and SATs of 1930 or more (ACT 29 or higher).</p>
<p>For what it’s worth the average accepted student accepted at Elon last year had over 600 in each section (including writing) of the SAT, so fellows are chosen on potential to excel as much any base GPA/SAT.</p>
<p>great! thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Yes, the add 1 for honors and 2 for AP is correct and raised D’s GPA from a 3.2 to a 3.9. I would assume they’re using their weighted GPA’s for scholarship cutoffs, wouldn’t make sense to calculate it 2 different ways.</p>
<p>Looking at NCMentor’s info (which I could look up in the Elon brochure if I wasn’t so lazy, ha ha) it turns out D won’t be applying for college fellows after all - just Leadership fellows. Her ACT was 27. (28 without science, but still not high enough)</p>
<p>D was accepted 12/1 under ED, good luck to all you EA and RD folks!</p>