<p>I'm currently enrolled in the IB diploma and would like to know how colleges view my GPA. My school weighs IB courses 0.5 more than regular courses, meaning an A would be computed as 4.5 instead of 4.0. Since the IB curriculum starts in 11th grade, my grades up to the end of 10th grade are completely unweighted and follow the A+ = 4.3 system. In calculating my cumulative GPA, both pre-IB unweighted and IB weighted grades are considered, giving me a GPA of 4.1. So my question is... Would colleges look at this 4.1 GPA or would they recalculate it without the weighted IB course grades? That would seem unfair, as IB courses are considered the most rigorous in the world and I think they deserve to be weighted. Any ideas? How do other IB schools weigh GPAs?</p>
<p>You have to either ask the individual colleges or look for this information on their website as each has its own policy. SUNY Binghamton, for example, takes exactly what the high school provides. Smaller, private schools will tell you right out that they unweight and re-weight according to their own formula. There is no set standard. I am not aware of any college that doesn’t view the full IB diploma programme as “most rigorous.”</p>
<p>My D did the full programme and “what is your policy with regard to the IB programme” became her standard question at all the schools we visited. Different answer at each one.</p>