Please someone answer my question because I’m getting so frustrated and freaked out by this!!
I’m currently a junior and just moved in to a new school, a public school. Before I went to a private school for my freshman and sophomore years.
Since the private school and public school both offer different classes, my counselor updated my transcript for the past two years using their systems with limited course offerings, and my GPA WAS DROPPED BY SO MUCH! A weighted GPA of 3.8ish and unweighted 3.6 or 3.5 i’m not sure.
However, the transcript I had from my old school (the private school) showing that I had a weighted GPA of 4.2ish and an unweighted GPA of 3.7ish.
The weighted GPAs of my freshman and sophomore years calculated were such a huge difference between the two. I’m so stressed out right now because I deserve a weighted GPA above 4.0. Since there are some honor classes that my new school don’t offer, when they put in the class in the system, it would only count for 4 points instead of 5 points with a honors boost.
SO i was wondering will college have an access to my old transcript (my freshman and sophomore year transcript from my last school)? Or they are just gonna look at whatever my current school provides which is the one with the way they calculated? I have no clue, and I’m so stressed out.
Can someone answer my question because I’m really confused and I wanted to go to a good college:( I’m so freaked out.
THANK YOU for taking your time reading this.
When you apply to college, you will send both transcripts. Stop fretting about this.
i see thank you!!!i feel better now
@annal2020 I was in the exact same position. On the Common App, there should be a section that allows you to explain this. You can also ask for your counselor to address this in his/her letter of rec when the time comes.
It’s not uncommon for the new hs, if it doesn’t offer the same courses, to default to what they do have. It also seems, since the new hs has incorporated the former record into the current, that you’re in a (not uncommon) situation where only one transcript is sent, the current one. Ask your GC.
Holistic colleges will look at the transcript, see the ABC grades, what strengths. They are more concerned with this than how all the different high schools weight.
Imo, you want to look at the original 9-10 transcript and just the course grades since transferring, then recalculate your gpa on a 4 point scale. Unweighted.
Then you’ll know the unweighted and have a better idea where you stand.
But, of course, we have no idea what colleges you’d like to target.
I had one B in my freshman year, 3 honors out of 7 classes. I ended up with a 4.3 weighted gpa and a 3.87 unweighted gpa.
In sophomore year I had taken many hard classes–all seven classes were honors, one AP (ap world history, I got a C and dropped the second sem and ended up with an A in regular history ) except English was regular. Also, I doubled my math in sophomore year. So, sophomore year was kinda rough, I had like a unweigted gpa of 3.4ish, but a weighted gpa of 4.0.
This year I’m trying to improve my GPA this year, but I’m kinda struggling, I take three aps this year–AP calc, AP Lang, AP Biology which are all rigorous classes.
However, I have pretty decent activities, like student council in my sophomore year, and held leadership positions in three clubs in my old school. I’ve done like 200 hrs of volunteering in sophomore year too.
My target school will probably be like top30 range? Like USC is my favorite for now. I know my GPA(especially the unweighted GPA like around 3.7ish, my weighted will be around 4.2 when the time I’m applying to college. The GPA I’m talking about here meaning the average GPA from freshman to junior years I received in both schools) will be on a lower range compared to others applying to USC. By the way, I also have a pretty good art portfolio that can kinda help, and a pretty decent SAT score (predicted 1500ish). So, would you think I have a chance shooting USC and top30?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!