<p>This year, my high school changed the way it calculates GPA (A=4, B+=3.5, B=3, etc...) so that it is now graded as such:</p>
<p>93-100 = 4
90-93 = 3.67
87-90 = 3.34
83-87=3.00
80-83=2.67</p>
<p>While I should be able to maintain to stay in the 93-100 range for most classes, I can think of two I might end up falling in the 87-90 range for, which will hurt my GPA more than a normal B+. I know junior year grades are the most important, but will colleges account for the change?</p>
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<p>If the university you apply to recalculates GPA by its own method, or just eyeballs transcripts for courses and grades without considering the GPA the high school reports, then it won’t matter. But if it trusts the high school’s reported GPA, or derived information like class rank, then it will matter.</p>
<p>thanks. any examples of colleges that fall under the categories you mentioned?</p>
<p>Most of them recalculate. Weighted GPA means nothing. So unless your school provides true unweighted GPA on the transcript for core classes only, colleges will recalculate. Gym, health don’t count.</p>
<p>So they’ll most likely sit down and recalculate anyway because they need to be universal. Almost all of them.</p>
<p>UC and CSU (in California) recalculate:
[CSUMentor</a> - Plan for College - High School Students - GPA Calculator](<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU)</p>
<p>Supposedly, schools with more holistic processes just look over the transcript for courses and grades in relation to offerings at the high school, while giving no regard to the high school’s calculation of GPA (since the high schools’ methods of weighting differ considerably).</p>
<p>Texas public universities use class rank and do not use GPA. Apparently, they trust the high schools’ determination of class rank, which may be affected by how the high school calculates GPA.</p>
<p>Most high schools use this scale. If you have been fortunate enough to have been given A’s for 90-93% in the past consider yourself lucky that you were able to have benefitted from the grade inflation for so long</p>