GPA Calculations for Applicants

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>Just wondering, when you apply to Harvard, the other ivies, and pseudo ivies, does the school recalculate your GPA for admissions purposes or do they go by what the high school sends to them. </p>

<p>For example, my school awards 4 points for an A (90-100), 3 points for a B (80-89), 2 points for a C (70-79), and 0 points for anything below 70. There is no separate point value awarded for an A+, A, or A-. This is our unweighted GPA that is not used to calculate class rank.</p>

<p>Then we have our weighted GPA, which takes the numeric value of our class grade adds 10 points for AP classes and 5 points for Honors Classes and then averages them. This number comes out on a scale of anywhere from 0-110. </p>

<p>My question is: Do the ives and psedo ivies take the grades from our transcript and recalculate our GPA using one of their standard forms or do they study our schools system? If the schools do recalculate our GPA does anyone know a link to where it talks about what exactly it is that they do? </p>

<p>Thanks in advance :)</p>

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<p>bump bump bump :)</p>

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<p>All schools plug your grades into their system and recalculate your gpa into the college’s gpa guidelines.</p>

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<p>any links to what their gpa guidelines are?</p>

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<p>I thought that most did not do that: I remember getting A Speech from more than one college admissions representative about how other colleges did that, but they just used the GPA your high school gave them. I couldn’t figure out why they were so self-righteous about it, but it does stick in my head. I might be wrong, though.</p>

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<p>I know that they have to reconfigure your gpa because every school has a different system. Some are percentages, some on 4.0 scale, some 4.5, some 4.5, etc. There is just too much variation that they need to evenly compare everyone.</p>

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<p>I think part of the reasoning was that sometimes recalculated GPAs end up being extraordinarily inaccurate, because they’re trying to compare apple-GPAs to orange-GPAs.</p>