<p>I have a 4.4 weighted GPA (as calculated by my school and appearing on my transcript) but my guidance counselor told me that the school does not have a "scale."</p>
<p>The CommonApp won't save my info unless I fill in the "scale" box from the dropdown menu?</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Isn’t “scale” just saying out of what as a possible max? So in a normal course is an A a 4 or a 5. That will tell your scale.</p>
<p>I don’t get the scale either. I thought it was the maximum obtainable GPA.</p>
<p>But if it’s as aanderson says, then that makes a little more sense to me.</p>
<p>An A is a 4 (regular), 4.5 (honors) and 5 (AP), but the guidance counselor specifically said that the school does not have a scale.</p>
<p>Sounds like the scale is a 4 to me.</p>
<p>if it’s a 4.4 weighted, it’s likely out of 5.</p>
<p>It seems that to say it’s out of 5 makes it look less impressive than it really is because you can’t have a 5.0 (unless you took ONLY AP courses which you can’t).</p>
<p>Theoretically the scale should be calculated for each student’s schedule and should be the highest possible GPA she would have if she had gotten an A in every class, right?</p>
<p>If we have a weighted and unweighted gpa, which one should we use? I could theoretically have two different scales then.</p>
<p>You can use either one, most people use the weighted one though.</p>
<p>There are not 2 different scales for weighted and unweighted that is why those terms are used. If there were 2 different scales we wouldn’t need to use the terms. Weighted (means weighted for the AP and honors courses) so it is a 4.4 on a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>I think I’m going to use my weighted because my class rank is a lot higher on it also.</p>
<p>Either way some universities recalculate your GPA based on your transcripts.</p>
<p>I’d put out of 5. At my school we have weighted grades with the top of our class around 4-4.6, no one can really reach a 5 because it involves all AP and honors courses when we need certain electives to graduate. Even though we can’t achieve a 5, I was told by my counselor to put down it was out of 5. You probably have the same system since you can get credit up to a 5 even if it is impossible to achieve a 5.0</p>
<p>DD’s scale is similiar to OP and our GC said to say the scale is 4.0. Interesting to hear GC’s saying different things!</p>