<p>Do colleges originally look at your weighted GPA or unweighted?
and what does unweighted mean, exactly?
thanks.</p>
<p>A weighted GPA will factor in the difficulty of advanced classes, e.g. IB, AP, or Honors courses. Someone might have a 3.8 "unweighted" GPA, but if they have a lot of AP courses, their "weighted" GPA will be higher.</p>
<p>Most colleges will probably look at whatever GPA is offered. All of the applications I've seen have boxes that guidance counsellors can check to indicate whether or not the given GPA is (un)weighted.</p>
<p>I've always been told that counselors unweight GPAs. Which makes sense really -- level the playing field.</p>
<p>Not really... Unless we go on a national standardized grading system, the playing field will never be level.</p>
<p>I don't think so- if you look at the secondary report they never ask for the unweighted if it's not the natural way to do things. And to truly level the playing field they'd have to add points and take away points from certain people, making socio-economic changes, etc. :)</p>