<p>Is the average GPA of people who get into UVA really 4.07 as the Princton Review website says???</p>
<p>maybe their GPAs are that weighted in virginia where it could be that average =D haha</p>
<p>Bailey, GPA can be a funny thing no matter where you are from. Some schools weight honors, some don't. Some schools give you a 1.0 boost for an honors or AP/IB class if your average is above 98.</p>
<p>That's the way it is in Virginia. Varies from County to County.
The last average GPA I saw was 4.01 but that book was a couple of years old. I am predicting that average GPA goes up a little this year.</p>
<p>yeah, thats fairly accurate and doesn't really imply anything. I have seen some schools that weight an AP A at 6.0. 6.0!? thats ridiculous.</p>
<p>I wish they would publish an unweighted average, that would be much more accurate. I don't even know what to guess. Maybe something like 3.7? 3.6? I don't know. Someone with more experience should chime in.</p>
<p>In virginia or at least where I am from for an A.P. course you have .05 added to you GPA while an honors course adds .025 to it but I do not know if that is standard across the state.</p>
<p>yeah, where YOU are from. Where I am from its 5.0 for an A in an AP/IB, 4.5 A in honors.</p>
<p>EVERYWHERE is different which is what that statistic is USELESS and should be IGNORED :)</p>
<p>my area does it this way</p>
<p>half pt for honors and one point for ap
so if you have an 85 in honors english it is 90 for grade
if you have a or 4.0 for class it becomes a 5.0.
schools should publish whether they are adding the pts or not to the gpa requirements. lots of kid where i am from have stop taking the honors classes cause they can make a better grade in the reg class without trying and some school not longer think honors are special cause they are so different from place to place. can't judge if they are really "honors" quality or not.</p>
<p>avg high school gpa is 4.05</p>
<p>I just read an app from a school where the highest GPA in the class is 14.xxx on a 12 point scale (that was a first). There's a school out there that just gives grades of 1, 2, or 3. Another one just uses words. </p>
<p>We don't crunch that stat...our assessment office probably attempts to, but I'd ignore the number. I doubt their recalculating all those GPAs.</p>
<p>Dean J, GPA at my school is calculated on a 12 point scale, which I fear is quite confusing. (If you divide by 3, however, you arrive at the regular 4.0 scale, and an easily "crunchable" stat. I have no idea why we hang on to the 12-pt. system!) </p>
<p>My school also dropped specific class rank this year in favor of decile reporting. Given that the very strongest students at the top of the top decile are clustered, it is easy to misinterpret someone in the top 4% as being in the lower half of the top 10%. What to do?</p>
<p>I remember hearing GPA is "ignored" and rank/percentile is looked at more closely...perhaps that is wrong though</p>
<p>I don't think Fairfax county provides decile or percentage. I am certain that they don't provide rank. Sure is tough to make sense of it all.</p>
<p>GPA isn't ignored. Your high school sends us a profile that describes their methodology. We use that to interpret the GPA. </p>
<p>The profile also has information about how rank is compiled, curriculum offerings, and grade distribution charts (ideally). We use the profile as a "key" to understanding the information on the transcript. So, we won't hold it against you if you didn't take a certain course during senior year if we can see that you exhausted your school's offerings the year before.</p>