<p>By disregarding my freshman GPA, does it mean Princeton have to recalculate all my unweighted GPA from sophomore year?</p>
<p>Princeton recalculates everyone’s GPA on the same standard (since schools grade differently). I would assume Princeton recalculates everyone’s GPA based on the university’s standards (i.e. A+ and A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2.0, etc).</p>
<p>What if my school’‘s district don’'t rank A+ or A- but only A?</p>
<p>Are there percentages on your transcript (i.e. in one class you have a 92 and in another you have a 98), or does it only show up as both classes being A’s. If it’s the former, then Princeton will just convert those grades (so, the 98 would be an A+, and the 92 would be an A-). If it’s the latter, then they may just calculate grades as A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0 (this would apply to everybody, too, since it would be unfair to recalculate one applicant’s GPA differently than another applicant’s GPA).</p>
<p>Really, whatever the case may be, Princeton recalculates each applicant’s GPA by the same standards.</p>
<p>so, does it happen at Harvard? Do they recalculate my GPA if it’s A, not A+ or A-?
On my report card, grades show up as numbers. Can you tell me at which point it’s considered A-, A and A+?</p>
<p>I don’t know what they do in the admissions office. All I know is that a college’s adcoms recalculate everybody’s GPA according to the university’s own standards because each high school has its own grading policy (and thus, students at two different high schools may have slightly different GPAs regardless if they have the same grades because of the schools’ differing grading policy).</p>
<p>While I have no first hand knowledge, I have read a couple of books that indicate that some of the Ivy schools do the following to calculating a GPA: (a) convert grade to A/B/C, without +/-, (b) look only at “core” courses (e.g., math, english, science, social studies, language).</p>
<p>What dfm0361 described makes the most sense.</p>
<p>Really? They count + and -s? I heard that they just take the solid grade.</p>
<p>A- and A+ are both 4s.
B- and B+ are both 3s.
And so on.</p>
<p>At least that’s what I heard other posters say. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>What about applying from a community college?</p>
<p>^You would be considered as a transfer, but Princeton (and Harvard as well) has put a halt to its transfer program for an indefinite period of time.</p>
<p>Once again we have a plethora of useless posts on gpa calcuations. If you don’t have facts as to how particular school’s calculate gpa, why post anything other than a question here? Anything beyond that is likely to mislead those who don’t recognize the difference between pure speculation and the actual facts.</p>
<p>^
Ooh, sorry! I forgot that you owned this forum.</p>
<p>Hey, guys, cool down. Don’t get in a big argument over this.</p>
<p>Ok, here’s what I know. Princeton DOES recalculate your GPA for 5 semesters (10th grade through 1st semester 12th grade) using your core academic classes. This puts all the applicants on an even playing field (since high schools have varying methods of determining their students’ GPAs). As to what grading scale Princeton uses to determine each applicant’s recalculated GPA, I do not know.</p>
<p>All cool here-My point is that it’s important not to state things here as facts if you’re not sure. Somebody might use that information in a way that is detrimental to their application. Sometimes I wonder how much purposeful sabotage might be going on…lol. It’s very competitive out there and in here, it seems.</p>