<p>My transcript currently says that I have a 3.595 weighted GPA and a 3.614 unweighted GPA. This sounded fishy to me, so I talked to my counselor about it. She simply said, "sometimes it just ends up like that."</p>
<p>Has anybody ever heard of the UW being higher than the weighted GPA? I haven't, so I'm curious to see if anyone else has.</p>
<p>I haven’t.</p>
<p>I don’t see how that’s possible. You’re UW GPA must be less than or equal to your weighted GPA.</p>
<p>It’s impossible, unless grades can weight the other way.</p>
<p>Maybe you’re taking a fluff class like ‘Decorative Handcrafts’ (my school actually offers that) and they weighted it less than normal? I’m not really sure…
I think your counselor’s just too lazy to fix whatever’s wrong. Try talking to someone higher up like a principal to get it sorted out.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken any “fluff” classes. Haha!</p>
<p>When I talked to the counselor, she e-mailed the lady who takes care of GPAs and she just explained how the GPAs are calculated and told me to see the head of the math department and to have her figure it. </p>
<p>I plan on seeing her, because my school ranks based on weighted GPA. Right now, I’m just a few people away from the top 10%, so it’s really killing me.</p>
<p>I’m just relieved to know that I wasn’t wrong about the fact that weighted is supposed to be higher. Also… I was looking through my folder with all of my transcripts from over the years, and even my freshman year weighted GPA is lower than the unweighted!</p>
<p>Dang, a 3.6 W will get you in the top 10% of your school. Why isn’t my school like that? My class rank could be killer. </p>
<p>Why do they need the head of the math department to figure out you gpa? I guess since your counselor and guidance department are obviously incapable of computing it, they decided to call in the big guns.</p>
<p>SOC2015- Um… thanks? And the last time I asked around, the last person in the top 10% had roughly a 3.7-something. So, if my weighted IS wrong, once it is re-calculated, it should put me a 3.7-ish GPA.</p>
<p>Your transcript should include a statement as to how grades are calculated. For example, on the transcript for my children’s school, the explanation is that an A in a regular class is worth 4 points, an A in an honors class is worth 5 points and an A in an AP class is worth 6 points.</p>
<p>I strongly encourage you to try to figure out your GPA yourself. If you have a 3.6 or so, weighted or unweighted, you are clearly quite smart. It is important that you understand the process so you can explain why your grade should be changed. Also, this issue will arise at the end of first semester as well as at the end of the school year if there is a problem with the school’s system.</p>
<p>I wrote a simple Excel program to figure my children’s GPAs after I found a discrepancy in my daughter’s transcript. I was then able to figure out the cause of the problem quickly.</p>
<p>Haha that doesn’t make sense at all unless you were taking a class that weighs down lol! Something happened along the line with the grades.</p>