GPA question:
The transcript my school sends has all number grades with a cumulative GPA and rank on the bottom. There are both unweighted and weighted GPAs listed. The unweighted has 70-79 as 2.0 80-89 as 3.0 90-100 as 4.0. The weighted has 87 as 3.7 94 as 4.4 and weighted class have a +1 (94 as 5.4). How will the colleges use my GPA? Will they calculate their own or use the school’s system? Or do they use the system with A- as 3.7?
Upward trend question:
How do schools deal with applicants with extreme upward trends. I have an extreme upward trend and not sure how schools will interpret it.
School UW: 3.25 W 4.25 (not just a +1, just coincidence)
This is using the system where an A- is a 3.7
Cumulative: UW 3.36 W 3.7
Fresh: UW:2.645 W:2.79
Soph: UW:3.58 W:3.88
Junior: UW:3.85 W:4.42
Not sure if it differs between schools, the schools I’ve applied to are (and I know most are reaches):
UChicago
Cornell
USC
Northeastern
UT
Boston College
Boston University
Rice
A&M
UTD (already accepted)
UH (not really worried about, applying for honors there)
Baylor
Upward trends, from what I have heard, are a good thing. It shows colleges that you’re dedicated to improvement and that you aren’t plateauing. But your freshman/sophomore grades are fairly low (I’m not exactly sure how much colleges consider these), but if your GPA keeps on improving in your senior year I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
@tonaviscestquoi I definetely did that thank you!
@donglified1 yeah I’m very worried about that, but do you know if the schools recalculate the gpa or do they use the same one on the transcript? The reason I ask is because my GPA is much lower on a B+=3 A-=4 scale than a A-=3.7 scale
They use the same one on the transcript. Different schools have different methods of calculating, and the colleges will consider only what your school uses.
The state i’m in…the UCs (University of California) don’t look at freshman grades. Maybe it’s the same for some of the colleges around you?
The state i’m in…the UCs (University of California) don’t look at freshman grades. Maybe it’s the same for some of the colleges around you? And improvement in grades is always a positive.
@donglified1 i guess ouch then
@am013384 I wish, I looked for colleges like that but nope. I also wish I could apply for UCs since my UC gpa is like a 4.0-4.15 (not 100% sure) and have competitive test scores (although they don’t superscore :() but they are too expensive
Texas publics use rank, not GPA.