I recently contacted Clemson and was told that 65% of students admitted are from South Carolina. I was told South Carolina High schools are on a 5.0 scale and the average 4.3 should be disregarded for OOS? Being a OOS student can someone tell me how honors and AP classes are weighted on a 5.0 scale. What I would would a 3.9/4.0 convert to on a 5.0 scale?
I am also OOS. They accepted me on only my UW 4.00 GPA. But I did convert mine just to know where I stood. I used Honors classes out of 4.5. AP and dual enrollment out of 5.0. And regular classes out of 4.0. I have 8 AP’s and about 12 Honors and mine was about a 4.4. I actually plugged it all into a calculator and figured out what it would be. It is just the average of all of your classes.There are websites that you can use, but honestly I thought doing it by hand was easier.
This is where the class rigor aspect comes into play I am sure. As long as your class rigor is fine, I am sure this aspect of your application won’t be a problem.
What do you mean they accepted you on only your unweighted 4.0 GPA?
I am assuming that if your school doesn’t weight your GPA, they compare your UW and don’t hold the weighted GPA category against you. So your me, they looked at ACT score, Class rigor, class rank, and UW GPA.
@msnape18 I’m also an OOS from a school that did not weight my GPA at all (it was on a 4.0 scale). I heard back in December. It shouldn’t be a problem, most universities re-weight scores based on their universal scale since all schools do it differently. Good luck!
We are OOS also from a school that uses a 4.0 scale and does not rank. I had seen that 4.3 average… didn’t realize it was out of 5 and not 4 in most cases, lol.
Got accepted in December to Engineering… believe clemson and most universities look at class rigor and ACT scores rather than just the straight numerical GPA… as it can be hard to compare across schools and programs.
good luck!