<p>does harvard re-calculate your GPA for admissions, b/c there seems to be so many diff GPA scales in diff schools.
at my school,
for academic classes, A=4.0;
for honors classes, A=4.6;
and for AP classes, A=5.0</p>
<p>how are your GPA's scaled? </p>
<p>and how do they take into account the fact that an A in one school means something different from an A in another school?</p>
<p>At my daughter's school they calculate the GPA four different ways list them according to method. There is UW, Weighted, U of Cal. and one other I've forgotten. That way each college can use the GPA they want.
There are no AP classes but several honors in math and science. There are also two college classes. This really confuses things because the college English is listed on the HS transcript and the college transcript. She received an A- on the college transcript but an A at the HS because the HS class starts three weeks early and includes an additional reading.</p>
<p>well, i've heard that harvard really only looks at the actual letter grades to see what you have earned in your courses rather than at a GPA. It is true--every school really has a different system; they either look at your school's GPA grading scale or recalculate it, i guess.</p>
<p>Honestly, do you that they are going to recalculate over 20000 grades? They look at ur letter grades and rank. GPA is meaningless.</p>