<p>Hi, I was just wondering if colleges look more at unweighted GPA or weighted GPA? Or do all colleges re-calculate the GPA?</p>
<p>And you know how on collegeboard.com they have colleges profiles and in the stats there's "GPA"? Is that unweighted?</p>
<p>Thanks =)</p>
<p>They look at whatever they get in the light of your school. Some schools give both weighted and unweighted and some give one or the other. It's all about context.</p>
<p>Ultimately, Class Rank is what matters. GPA doesn't mean anything without some kinda basis of comparison.</p>
<p>It's unweighted and courseload. At least when every private school and most publics list average GPAs, they are listing unweighted. Weighted is good, but it doesnt say much other than you took honors/APs. You school could overall suck and weighted classes could be easy.</p>
<p>They won't exactly take weighted into consideration. It is more of a quick glance thing. They really just want to know if you got good grades in your classes (As). Problem with weighted is when you get some kid going to a school where pretty much every class is offered in honors form. Like "honors piano" or "honors geography" or random stuff like that that you most likely would take to try and impress colleges. They see through it tho.</p>
<p>Class rank is important, tho not quite as much as i think the poster above gives it credit. Maybe for your average school it makes sense, but super elite privates like Exeter and Andover, and good public schools cant really use rank so much. For instance at exeter and Andover (im hoping you have heard of them...Exeter, Andover, and St. Pauls are definitely the best 3 private prep schools in the US...average SATs for the students is a little over 2100 i think for all 3) being in the top 30% will never hurt your chances at getting into a top school. Making it through there essentially makes any university a cakewalk. </p>
<p>SATs/ACTs are perhaps better indicators of GPA validity. For instance that top 30% Exeter kid applies to Harvard. They go, "hmmmm 30%...his rank sucks." Then they see his lovely 2280 sat and realize, "oh yeah, he's from exeter. that rank is super good".</p>
<p>However, there are always kids who don't do awesome in school and do great on standardized tests, but those are the rare exceptions.</p>