Hey everyone, I’ve heard that Harvard requires our GPA to be higher than 4, but in Vietnam where I live 4 is the maximum GPA according to the government’s scale, this is the unweighted GPA because in Vietnam we don’t have AP classes or honor classes. I have also heard that normal high school study in Vietnam can be count as AP class in the USA. Is this true? Does Harvard care about weighted or unweighted GPA and if they do consider weighted GPA, how can I solve this problem?
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Harvard does not require GPAs to be higher than 4.
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Harvard is smart enough to look at the tens of thousands of schools and to review their grading scales and interpret correctly.
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normal study in VN = US AP courses? Who knows. It depends on what your school says. It’s their job to learn/understand your school documents. If they have any questions, they’ll contact the school or you. YOu don’t do anything for now.
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Based on your other post, it seems you better target a broad list of universities. Harvard is a virtual impossibility based on what you wrote in the other post. You’d have to be one of your country’s best single candidates in YEARS to have a slight hope.
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When posting requests for advice, please entitle your posts more descriptively “Help please: Harvard GPA conversion for student from Vietnam” would get more looks/replies than “help”. Good luck
I’m a forum newbie, sorry for the title. Thanks a lot for your information. I have a whole four years to prepare for Harvard so… I will try my best, enough to avoid the virtual impossibility 
anyways, according to your reply I think I have got a 4.0 GPA already.