How does penn does recalculate gpa?

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<p>how does penn does recalculate gpa?</p>

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<p>penn acceptees: did your high school weigh honors classes as well ap/ib?</p>

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<p>By dumping all non-academic classes and unweighting it.</p>

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<p>lol if that's true, i guess they don't care about course difficulty :p and i'm screwed... 3.6 :)</p>

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<p>just make this clear, academic classes mean english, math, history, science and foreign language right? not stupid stuff like tech and band right?</p>

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<p>Is IB Art-Digital Media considered "academic?"</p>

<p>But first, what are your sources? Is this a hypothesis based on your
admissions knowledge of other comparable colleges? I was pretty sure
that Penn and the majority of colleges, including most of the Ivy League, do not spend time recalculating gpas. After all, consider the heaps and heaps of applications to famous/popular colleges like Penn, Columbia, Chicago etc...</p>

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<p>Why don't one of you guys e-mail UPenn and ask them? Would they share this info?</p>

<p>Also, does anyone know if they keep the number grades (100 scale) or convert to 4.0 scale. If they do 4.0 scale is it 90-100= 4, 80-89 = 3, etc?</p>

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<p>Why don't one of you guys e-mail UPenn and ask them? Would they share this info?</p>

<p>No... they're not gonna tell u their admissions formula haha...</p>

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<p>True, but shouldn't they say if they recalculate gpa?</p>

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<p>I hope they recalculate GPA!! my crazy band teacher gave me B+ even though I was the best tenor saxophone player!!! she never gives A to anyone</p>

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<p>tokudas, you could have your counselor explain that. It's easier.</p>

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<p>if my counselor explains about it, do you think colleges believe it? I mean don't they think like "counselors always exaggerate... this counselor must exaggerating, too"</p>

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<p>"What It Really Takes to Get Into Ivy League and Other Highly Selective Colleges" by Chuck Hughes did give an example about an applicant who got into Harvard ED, and got his first C ever on his midyear transcript. The writer (as he wrote he's an adcom) wrote that Harvard Adcom called the school, and the school said that the teacher was notorious for not giving anyone more than B. So, the applicant wasn't rejected after being admitted ED.</p>

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<p>IIRC only AP Studio Art counts as an academic class, other art classes don't, but this is me trying to think back a couple of years. </p>

<p>My sources for the information are the fact that I was an admissions work-study person my freshman year, and I was the one recalculating all the GPAs (that's how they find the time to do it..)</p>

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<p>lauraanne, how would they change a numerical grade to a scaled gpa? I heard they do it by ranges (ex.90-100=4, 80-90=3, etc)</p>

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<p>that would be MOST favorable to me... haha</p>

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<p>i dont think they do it like that tho, cuz then how could they different a 99 student from say a 91 student</p>