<p>Do colleges usually just put everyone's GPA back to a 4.0 scale? But wouldn't that take a very long time to do (for thousands of applicants), or are there computers that help them do it?</p>
<p>Or do they just take the given GPA, look at the classes and get a brief idea, and then look at class rank?</p>
<p>Does anyone exactly know how most colleges recalculate GPA? Are there college websites that specifically say that they reweigh GPA and take out non-core classes like P.E out of the equation?</p>
<p>I'm trying to recalculate my GPA back to the 4.0 scale, but I don't know whether I should include non-core classes, and whether I should even do it on the 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I want to know this too, can somebody answer?</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>Every school has its own system! Some don’t really spend much time recalculating GPA, but simply look at the actual letters on your transcript to see how well you did. Others have a system to put it into their own scale, whether it’s on a 4.0 or out of 100 or whatever they find best indicates academic performance.</p>
<p>Our private high school had a panel of admissions officers speak to parents last spring they were from UMD, Georgetown, John Hopkins and Dickinson and this is what they said.</p>
<p>gpas are a nightmare.
every school system seems to have their own; they joked about the fairfax county public schools system (VA) in the dc suburbs as the latest example of a school system that changed under parent pressure to make gpas more advantageous (ie. can you say inflated???)
Admissions officers said high gpas are meaningless unless backed up by a strong class profile; strong AP schedule, strong standardized testing, capitvating ECs.
Loved the John Hopkins rep who sang the praises of one applicant who had a menial job at the local mall, but was able to articulate why it was important to his life and experience in a much more effective way then the privileged kids with a zillion ecs listed on his/her ap.</p>