GPA: Weighted or Unweighted??

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'll be applying to upper ivies and schools like that. Should I use my unweighted gpa of 95.52 or my weighted of 98.76. The weighted clearly looks better, but our school only adds +5 for honors and AP classes and I know that many other schools give a much bigger boost to APs, like 10 points or something (like 1 or 1.5 on the 4.0 scale). Do you think the unweighted gpa would therefore appear more telling and more impressive on my common app?</p>

<p>which should I use and why???</p>

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<p>Who knows. All I know is my average is a 98.95, weighted or unweighted, whatever. </p>

<p>There doesn’t look like much of a difference in yours. Unweighted so you don’t look conceited maybe.</p>

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<p>any other opinions? also, a 95.52 translates to a 4.0, so even though our school uses the 100 pt scale, do you think I should ask my counselor to write my gpa as 4.0 unweighted as opposed to a 98.76 weighted? I think the 4.0 would be better</p>