GPA Weighting Complaint

Applying to College
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Doesn’t it anger some of you who have a high school that gives weighting but hardly any, but your GPA comes out as weighted?

My GPA is a 3.521 Unweighted, and a weighted GPA of 3.545

In most of the college boxes, however, I have to write the GPA as 3.545 in the weighted section.

Even though colleges may see that my school doesnt give weighting to honors classes and hardly any weight for AP classes, it still makes me mad because some colleges might not look that into the college application.

Can’t all grading scales just be the same?!

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<p>They will see your school profile and know that students do not get much higher weighted GPAs. It will be all fine</p>

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<p>What's a normal weighted GPA system? My school doesn't bother with weighting at all. I've taken a lot of AP classes and all of the rest have technically been honors classes. I tried calculating it with 4.5=AP A, but my GPA only increased to about 4.12. How do people get crazy 4.6's and stuff? What kind of scale are THEY using?</p>

<p>And also, if 4.5+ is the new 4.0, maybe we should all just forget about the "4.0" scale...</p>

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<p>yeah the valedictorian in our class has a 4.016 (out of 4.0). You think since it's not too high, they'll know there is hardly any weighting for our school?</p>

<p>Cause I know the school report lists the highest GPA and lowest GPA of the graudating class.</p>

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<p>my school uses
for AP and honor classes
A= 5.0
B= 4.0... etc</p>

<p>regular classes
A=4.0... etc</p>

<p>i am taking seven classes: two AP, three honors and i have a 4.7 (all A's)</p>

<p>i dunno is this normal or not but i think that's how people get 4.5's and 4.6's. also, they take college courses during the summer to boost up the GPA and the courses taken at the college are weighted for most. i know tons of people who does this to have padding for their GPA. it ****es a lot of people off even at our school. finally the school just stopped giving credit to college courses if they are offered at school.</p>

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<p>at my school you get weight of 4.0 for an A in a regular class, 4.3 for weight in a college prep class, then 5 for honors or AP</p>

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<p>we don't get any weights for advanced or cp classes tho and there is a large difference between regular and advanced such as regular english and adv. english.</p>

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<p>On a 4-point scale, our school weights AP classes a 7.</p>

<p>My GPA is crazy high, somewhere above a 5.</p>

<p>That said, colleges will see what courses you've taken, and what grades you've gotten. I doubt the GPA itself is going to be that much of a factor, when they have the rest of the transcript. They may even calculate their own GPA for you using some standard scale, during the admissions process.</p>

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<p>My school doesn't weight. So i'm in the fourth decile. If they did weight, i'd probably be around the 2nd decile. It sucks.</p>

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<p>colleges care more about the grades themselves than the #s they turn out as</p>