<p>Ok, I was wondering, or should I say making sure, that schools like Harvard, Yale, etc. recalculate your GPA. My high school does not go above a 4.0, even if you take ap, so will they just strip my score down to its unweighted and then weight it or what?</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer!</p>
<p>They usually look at UW GPA, rank, and your school report to weigh your academic success. You should not be hurt by your school’s particular method of calculating GPA.</p>
<p>^ I agree with the above unless your grades bringing your UW GPA up are not in the main subject areas (ie CAD CAM, programming, art, music, business, accounting, etc). As I understood from when my son went through the application process, the schools that recalculate not only use their scale of choice but also only use certain classes in the calculations.</p>
<p>do they look more at UW rank or weighted rank? My school reports both and my UW is going to not be in top 5% but my weighted will be top 2%</p>
<p>I believe weighted rank is more important, otherwise you’d be benefiting by taking all of the easiest classes.</p>
<p>I also have a question related to this. Do they input Freshman grades when they calculate your UW GPA? As of now, I have a 3.98 UW GPA 9-11 (Senior currently) with one B Freshman year. Will they ignore this B or do I stay at a 3.98 GPA?</p>
<p>GPA is for grades 9 - 12</p>
<p>Harvard Admissions will look at everything . . . everything. Weighted, unweighted, earlier test scores, random supplemental materials, etc. And they don’t plug it into a formula - they look at it, discuss it, argue over it. If your school does this or doesn’t do that, it won’t matter - they’ll look at it, fully aware of the variations in how different HSs report stats.</p>