<p>How does your school/ do most colleges calculate GPA? </p>
<p>Also, what kind of school to you go to?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if any part of the weighting high schools add is considered, or if they straight up use unweighed GPAs? </p>
<p>I'm interested to know if it's pretty consistent across the country and types of schools.</p>
<p>I am interested in this too. It seems like every site I look at does it differently. Some sites tell me that a 93 is a 4.0 whereas other sites have told me that that is like a 3.7 =/ (93 was just a random number)</p>
<p>I want to know this too, as my school gives out number (93) grades.</p>
<p>bumping this because I'm not the only one who wants to know.</p>
<p>at my school we have no pluses or minuses. A person with an 89.9% (many teachers will round this to a 90% or A-) can end up having the same gpa as a person with 110% (A+) in a class because they both count as 4.0's. I have heard that the same goes for B's, C's, etc. That a student with 80% gets the same credit as a student with 89.9% (if you have a mean teacher who refuses to round to an A). </p>
<p>I guess this is unfair to students who consistently get A pluses (97% and above) because a student maintaining a 90% in all their classes will have the exact same gpa. but of course if you're the one get the 90's, there's no way you'll be complaining about the system.</p>
<p>our school also weights ap classes, but i also found out that it weights NEVAC classes (2 period career/technical courses offered at our high school that can be taken for college credit granted from our local community college) which is quite upsetting because these classes are way easier than AP's, and there is almost no rigor (NEVAC subjects include CISCO-computer networking, Teaching Academy, Media Productions, Culinary Arts, Sports Med, Horticulture, etc.)</p>
<p>I go to a public school of about 1600 students. we are consistently ranked on the top 100 high schools in the nation by Newsweek and US News and have a notorious reputation for the amount of AP's our students take.</p>
<p>My school has a 4.0 GPA scale.
93-100%=A
86-92%=B
77-85%=C
70-76%=D</p>
<p>My school just gives grades of 1-100. No weighting of grades and no ranking. No valedictorian or salutatorian.
School of about 1300 students not too bad academically... 9 periods in a day.</p>
<p>same as lucynarae.</p>
<p>Is it true that our high schools notify the colleges we applied to with explanations of how our GPA is calculated? Because clearly, it's all different...</p>
<p>Luckyducky, yes. GC sends in a high school profile that clearly outlines how
Weighted GPA is computed.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Do colleges usually just keep the weighted GPA you send, or, when they recalculate them, do they ever self weight AP, honors, and advanced classes?</p>
<p>what is the that in terms of GPA from 4.0 to a letter grade
eg.</p>
<p>4.0 - 3.7 = A</p>
<p>whats the rest??</p>
<p>My school's just ridiculous. This is what they had during my attendance (they're changing it after this year):</p>
<p>No ranking, no weighting, no number grades, only 4.0 GPA scale.</p>
<p>A+ (95-100 on a test/quiz) - 4.0
A (90-94) - 3.5
B+ (85-89) - 3.0
B (80-84) - 2.5
...</p>
<p>They do that for every grade in each class, and then get the class grade out of 4.0 and use the following scale:</p>
<p>2.25 - 2.74 - B
2.75 - 3.24 - B+
3.25 - 3.74 - A
3.75 - 4.00 - A+</p>
<p>This system hurt all the kids who applied to large schools that don't recalculate GPA because a B student has around a 2.5 instead of 3.0. Next year, they are just inflating the GPA equivalencies, but keeping the same system. In a few years, numbers like a normal school.</p>
<p>that does sound crazy/ridiculous.</p>
<p>So I have a 3.435, which under a normal system would be a 3.65-3.7</p>
<p>Sorry I'm still a bit confused. Under most systems, to have a 4.0 do you have to have a 100? Or 95+? Or is a 95 more of a 3.9?</p>
<p>Some colleges use the transcript as is (i.e the weighted average) and some recalculate. Even in the top 10 colleges the treatment of the GPA varies
somewhat depending on whether it is an ivy or a top place like MIT, CALTECH,
STANFORD, DUKE, etc.</p>
<p>Maybe someone with more intimate knowledge might comment?</p>
<p>:)</p>