How do private schools weight honors classes? Quick Question, Please Look!

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<p>So, this year I am doing pretty good. Im a Junior and so far getting 4 As, and 2 Bs, taking 1 AP and 1 Honors, both UC approved. So I will have a high upward trend and am doing a lot better than last year as you will soon see.</p>

<p>But last year I sucked and got 2Bs, 1 A, 2Cs. But I took all honors, with an advance math class (pre calc - which is mostly a jr level class, not a sophomore level class), which didn't have any honors offered. 4 Honors classes, + pre calc. So it was a really hard year, probably harder than my junior year because I toned it down to get a good GPA and take classes I liked.. </p>

<p>However, I found out as a sophomore that I only took 1 UC weighted class, and the other 3 honors were non weighted UC classes. So for sophomore year my UC GPA is 3.0. My unweighted is 2.8. But if you weight all my honors classes I would have about a 3.6-7ish about. That's 6 more semesters of weighted and it really boosts my GPA. So, I was wondering how do private schools weight honors classes that are not approved by UCs? Do they have a different system of weighting? Cus if they weighted normal honors, not just UC approved, my weighted GPA will go way up. What's the case with private school weighted GPAs? Could I have a better chance of going to privates?
Thanks. </p>

<p>It really sucked to find out my honors didn't count. Some of my friends took normals and got As, while I took honors and worked way harder and mainly got Bs which didn't count as weighted.</p>

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<p>There isn't one formula for how private schools weight class grades. Most privates strip away all the weighting done by individual high schools and re-weight according to their own formula. So there's no single answer to your question, but yes it does seem possible your weighted GPA re-calculated by a private college may be higher. But that's just a generalization. There really isn't anyway to know for sure, and the sophomore year is done and nothing to be done about it. Just move ahead and do your best and apply to a range of colleges when that time comes.</p>

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<p>alright, thanks. anyone else have some more info?</p>

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<p>just curious again, so would private colleges see my sophomore gpa as a 3.6, as a 3.0 (like UCs), or a 2.8 (unweighted)</p>

<p>can i get some more input</p>