<p>How do you get the unweighted cumulative GPA? Do you add the final averages from grades 9 - 11 and then divide? I am not getting the same percentage as the schools.</p>
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<p>Calculating your own unweighted gpa is based on a 4.0 = A scale, not a percentage. Colleges will sometimes use only unweighted grades and only academic courses in the gpa they consider. This may mean no art, phy ed or music classes probably. Our HS did semester grades, all courses, no weighting and no plusses or minuses and each course was one unit. Therefore a year long course would be 2 units with whichever semester grades given. Without a study hall this would be 7 periods x 2 semesters each year. Be sure you are thinking in the proper time period- alternate day classes would be a semester spread out over the entire year or however they do it.</p>
<p>We can’t even begin to calculate my daughter’s GPA on a 4.0 scale.
She went to a magnet school where all classes are taught at the honors level and they graded on a 0-100 basis. Then in sophmore year we moved abroad and she is now in a school that uses the IB system (1-7, 7 being the best.)</p>
<p>In that situation you will have to do some fudge factoring. Consider where she fits among her elite student body and how she is doing compared to the top possible scores. Add in her standardized test scores for a picture of her abilities and knowledge base compared to the rest of the college applicants. This is the main reason for the ACT/SAT testing- to sort out all of the grading systems relative to each other.</p>
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<p>I think not always possible. I know for example, our kids have NO IDEA how they do compared to their classmates. It has been the norm of the highschool (apparently for the past 150 years), not to discuss grades or focus upon them. They get a score out of 100 on everything and their own running average for each course as the year goes on, but they do not provide averages for any assignments or tests, nor do they know course averages. There is no ranking, val or sal, and there aren’t highly differentiated tracks in terms of levels for courses. It’s a small but selective school, all the kids are high achievers, and kids place well into top colleges in three countries (and lots and lots of evidence its a very rigorous school)…but the kids really don’t have a clue where they stand relative to the peers as it is not easily available and the plus is they focus on themselves rather than others.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with the “no art, no pe, no music classes” part. At least for the UC’s and Cal States, a year of fine arts is required so art, ceramics, music, etc… are counted in the GPA calculation. Things that are not counted are PE, athletics, student government, Health, Avid, Yearbook, student helper, woodshop, metalshop, etc…</p>