GPA explanation for those accepted and those not?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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<p>I was actually wondering… has anyone thought about how the gpa scaling is different? maybe this is the reason we may be seeing people with high gpas not get accepted.
For example, at my school we only get an extra grade point for AP courses. Our school offers advanced courses, but not honors. Im sure many kids on this site have their GPAs calculated with the honors course as an extra grade point. therefore, this may lead to what i would call an “inflated GPA”. </p>

<p>So if my advance courses were honors, my gpa would be around a 4.2 as well, but its only a 4.06 because my school doesnt have honors. </p>

<p>Advanced classes at my school are essentially equivalent to honors at other schools, but there’s just no extra grade boost.</p>

<p>could this possibly be an explanation for all these statistical confusions?</p>

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<p>It’s also a matter of people stating their weighted/unweighted GPA, which in reality is different from their CSU GPA - the one Cal Poly uses. In my case, I had some classes that I didn’t care about and didn’t do well in (such as AVID freshman-junior year. Hated it until this year), but because they weren’t A-G classes, they didn’t matter for me in the long run. That said, my UC/CSU GPA was, oddly enough, higher than my weighted GPA.</p>