How do COLLEGES refigure HS GPA?

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<p>This topic is confusing me. One thing I know for sure is that for the statistical data for the Common Data Set, etc., the colleges strip the courses of any weight; then they apply a 4 for an A, a 3 for a B etc. </p>

<p>What I do NOT know is whether their reported "entering freshman GPA" includes courses outside of the 5 academic areas (do they include music, art, gym, etc?).</p>

<p>Second, what if the HS does not report As and Bs, but on a hundred point scale? Maybe it's different for every college, but do they count 90 as an A, or do they reduce it to something like a 3.7 or something?</p>

<p>It would seem to me that the details should be the same for all colleges, since they all submit to the CDS, but who knows? It just gets very confusing....Yale reports an average 3.9 GPA for their incoming class, and other schools say 3.6 or 3.4, but without standard rules, what does it mean?</p>

<p>Anyone know? Thank you!</p>

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<p>From our experience, the colleges each had their own formulas for recomputing the GPA. You would need to contact the individual school to find out what they do. For example, at one college, they took ONLY the core courses (math, English, sciences, history, foreign language) and had a formula for recomputing GPA (with no weighting). At another school they did the same thing but had a weighted scale for AP/honors courses. At another school ALL courses were recomputed (expect PE) but using the college's formula. And at other schools they didn't recompute at all.</p>

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<p>Thank you. I suspected as much!</p>

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<p>Other schools cap credit for certain courses, such as performing arts....</p>