How does Alabama recalculate GPA?

[apost12]

My school does a 100 point weighted scale with 3.3% weighting for honors and 6.6% for AP/IB etc. On the HC app, it says I have a 3.6486 GPA. The weighted GPA on my transcript is an 89.4583 weighted, so I have no idea how they got this number. Thoughts?

[mom2collegekids]

UA takes the GPA on the transcript.

Where did that 3.6 GPA come from on your HC app? Are you seeing that online? If so, it seems that’s what Bama put into its system.

Have you received a merit scholarship letter? When were you accepted?

[mom2collegekids]

I already have Bama in hand with $104k,

Ok…so you have the Presidential. Looks like somehow Bama put in a more favorable GPA for you, you’re good!

Have you visited???

[mom2collegekids]

Demographics:

State: New York

School Type: Top public

Race: White (Jewish)

Gender: Male

Income Bracket: $200k+ - disregard fin. Aid in suggesting schools.

Stats:

ACT: 34 C (35E/33M/35R/33S, 8/8/8/9 Essay)

SAT: 1450 (730 CR + W/720 M. 5/3/5 Essay). Won’t submit unless absolutely necessary.

SAT II: 730 Lit, 700 USH, 690 Math II (should I retake as a non-STEM major?)

GPA - ~88.5 UW, ~91 W with standard .5 Honors/1.0 AP/IB Weighting. Have an 89.5 weighted average on my transcript with .033/.066 weighting.

Rank: No idea. My school deflates grades and is hella competitive, so I’d say top 10% at your average American public HS.

Courseload: AP: World History (5), US History (5), Spanish Lang (3), IB English HL, 3 honors classes out of 17 classes total. One of the most rigorous in my school.

Senior Year Course Load: Full time at local CC honors program. Has high transfer rates to Tier 1 schools (M/TS Honors Program if you want to do more research).

Extracurriculars:

Academic Team (9-12, captain senior year, super-involved and will get excellent LOR’s from the advisor who is also my GC)

Debate (11-12, hopefully I’ll be captain senior year)

Volunteered at freshman orientation the last two years - only a day a year but I can write on how participating in it impacted freshmen or something along those lines.

Founded a club organizing field trips for the school, but it never got off the ground this year but next year I’ll have a lot more to write about.

I was also in JSA and Young Democrats Club, but there was wax-and-wane involvement and sometimes those clubs didn’t meet for months.

Doing environmental policy research this summer with a research professor at Columbia - will probably enter it in competitions

Starting a job as a busboy next week - will be doing about 10-20 hrs./week

Will have more EC’s at CC since it’s a lot bigger

Essays: Haven’t started them yet. Solid decision-making all around.

Teacher Recommendations: Pretty good - prolly like 8-9/10

Counselor Rec: Will be 11/10 - I’m really close w/ him. Knows me very well and can speak to my strengths. Advocates for me when reps from all sorts of top schools visit.

Other: I have ADHD and thus my grades suffered a little bit throughout all of HS because I didn’t get diagnosed until the spring of my junior year. I also have depression and am barely on the autism spectrum but those are iffy and I don’t want to reveal my mental health issues to my schools.

I’m also chasing merit aid very hard (half my list consists of safeties), so schools with full tuition scholarships would be nice

Ok, so you’re Jewish! Have you looked over Bama Hillel? Very active group. Very social and friendly. I belong to their FB group just so that I can let folks like you know how active they are.

How much will your parents pay each year for college? Seems like you have some issue with that.

Tuscaloosa also has a strong expert physician specializing in ADHD. Very popular, very successful. It’s his entire practice. Are you being treated?

[apost12]

I have not visited. I’m going in a couple of weeks though. I’m not actually sure what my parents are contributing - it could be $12k a year or double that. They are very vague about finances. I just started Vyvanse today, and I like it a lot. Unfortunately, I had a 2.10 GPA this semester at my CC for dual-enrollment, which I’m hoping won’t get me rescinded. I did look at the Hillel; they seem great. How much should I expect to contribute next year, as I remember you telling me that the dorms in the net price calculator were very expensive.

[mom2collegekids]

You won’t be rescinded. Your merit is based on grades 9-11. As long as you don’t flunk out, you’re fine. Avoid D’s too.

The dorms in the COA are the supersuites. If you choose a standard double, the rates are about $3k-4K cheaper.

Ask your parents if they’ll pay the approx $15k for room, board, books, fees.

[apost12]

Thanks. My parents actually only want to know what they pay the school - they don’t factor book/transportation.misc. stuff in because it varies by school. I looked on their website and it would be 10k/yr. with the cheapest dorms, which is 15k/yr. less than SUNY Binghamton, whose price is what my parents are willing to pay for school.

[mom2collegekids]

Ok!

You need to deposit for enrollment and for housing!!!