<p>Do most colleges just take your grades and recalculate them? If so, they take all your grades? My school drops the lowest grade from our GPA. So my GPA might be lower than it actually is when they reprocess it themselves?</p>
<p>yes your recalculated gpa will drop if your school weights it, especially if you have a C or a D. If you have all A’s and a few B’s, it won’t change so much.</p>
<p>I don’t know why high schools weight gpa’s…it just gives students a false sense of security</p>
<p>It has to do with ranking. Should the 4.0 that took all regular classes be ranked the same as the 4.0 with all Honors, APs, and dual-enrollment classes? Each college has its own way of recalculating GPAs, including which classes to count and how much weight to add to each grade. To have an idea go to the University of Florida forum and look up recalculating GPAs and see how they do it. In any case, worry more about the rigor of your curriculum than about recalculated GPA.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, our HS uses weighted GPA for ranking but not for Vals/Sals.</p>
<p>Our school weights, but doesn’t rank. Go figure.</p>
<p>How does UCLA recalculate gpa? Because I heard that they don’t take honors into account for OOS kids yet the average is 4.3 I can’t tAkE APs until junior year so the highest possible I can get is 4.0</p>