<p>Does Harvard recalculate your high school GPA or does it follow your school system? For example if my school's A- is a 4.0, would Harvard recalculate it to be like a 3.7 when they look at my transcript?</p>
<p>i have the same question :(</p>
<p>I'm sure they take that into consideration. If a C is a 4.0 GPA in your school, then a 4.0 is not a good GPA.</p>
<p>I don't know if Harvard recalculates - some schools don't bother, just look at your grades in the subjects they care about, but none that I am aware of actually use the GPA your school submits except for in-school comparisons, and even there, they take into account whether grades are weighted or unweighted and how much. This is because schools weight honors and AP courses differently from each other, and in addition, most selective colleges only look at your 'solids' when computing GPA, and leave out a lot of non-solid electives. Solids are english, foreign language, history, science and math, roughly speaking, while band, journalism, psychology etc are not considered core academic subjects and not included in the GPA recalculation.</p>
<p>This is a general statement - I don't know the specifics of what Harvard does.</p>