<p>hey how does ur school weight GPA ... mine doesn't have one and i think it's stupid.. what do u think?</p>
<p>colleges only look at unweighted gpa so it doesn't matter anyways, but here is mine...</p>
<p>we offer both honors and AP
honors = no extra credit or anything, an A in honors = 4.0, an A in regular = 4.0
AP = +0.5 extra points, an A in AP Blah = 4.5, a B+ = 4.0, etc</p>
<p>but as i said, weighted doesn't matter</p>
<p>My school doesn't calculate GPA at all.</p>
<p>4.0 base with a +1 for honors and +2 for AP. Each point below a 96 has .125 points subtracted from the GPA (so a 92 is a 3.5, for instance).</p>
<p>why doesn't it matter?</p>
<p>it doesn't matter what your weighted is, b/c every school weights differently, would it be fair for a college to judge you and your 4.3 gpa, against 4.7 gpa, even though it is not possible for you to get a 4.7, and 4.3 is the highest you could possibly get at your school, what they can judge though is that you got a 4.0 and the other person a 3.9 unweighted, that is why your weighted doesn't matter, it is really mostly for students who like to brag within their school how high their gpa is</p>
<p>Normal scale (4.0, 3.7, 3.3, 3.0...) for lowest level of class (basically remedial) then +1 for mediocre level of study, and then +2 for honors and AP</p>
<p>No, weighted GPA matters much more than unweighted. It's just that you can't compare weighted GPAs across schools because they calculate differently. Colleges don't actually looked at weighted GPA, but rather indirectly use it by factoring in class rank (assuming your school uses a weighted GPA for that), and calculate things using their own, proprietary weighted GPA system.</p>
<p>But it is nice to know how most schools weight GPA to compare them when reading somebody's post on here.</p>
<p>I understand that colleges create their own GPA ranking system, but how do most do it, do they weight? They should factor in the difficulty of classes into their system...Somebody above stated it was "unfair" for a college to use school-created GPA systems, well, it is also unfair that some schools consider a 93% an A while others consider a 90% an A. Colleges don't factor that in, but they do factor this in, that seems unfair.</p>
<p>A in an AP class = 5.0</p>
<p>Our school has the ****test grading system ever. Pretty much all of the grades are inflated, and none of the classes are really hard. Whether you get an A or not almost depends on the teacher - how easily he/she gives out As and how structured the class is (in some classes there aren't enough points to pad you).</p>
<p>same at my school....A in AP or honors is a 5.0, A+ is a 5.3....I think I have like a 4.9</p>
<p>out of 20:</p>
<p>AP/honors A-20
AP/honors B or academic A-18
AP/honors C or academic B-16
AP/honors D or academic C-14
AP/honors F or academic D-12
academic F-10</p>
<p>every '+' is an extra .165pt
every '-' is an .165pt less</p>
<p>your weighted gpa then gets converted to the 4.0 scale in a way that boggles me confused.</p>
<p>what if your school is not going by A, A-, B, etc. scale? What is the result when converted to the 4.0 scale? for ex. a 95 average? a 90?
thanks.</p>
<p>4.0 scale as base</p>
<p>+1 for honors and pre-ib
+2 for AP and IB</p>
<p>so you can get a max of 6.0 by taking all AP or all IB</p>
<p>we do not do the -/+, so if you have a low A, its still an A</p>
<p>simplyxme, you can't just convert a 95 into a 4.0 or 3.9 or anything like that unweighted. A 95 will most likely range from anything to a 3.7 to a 4.0. At my school the grading scale is:
A: 94-100 (4.0)
B+: 90-93 (3.5)
B: 84-89 (3.0) etc.</p>
<p>So you would take all of your grades and convert them into this form, add up all of the 4.0's, 3.5's, etc, and divide that by the number of classes. The reason a 95 can and can't be a 4.0 is that if all of your grades were above 93.5 and your average was a 95, then you would have a 4.0, but if your average was a 95 and and just one of your grades was below 93.5, you wouldn't have a 4.0 anymore. So if you want to see a pretty close 4.0 unweighted scale interpretation, try doing it with my school's grading scale. I hope that helps with your conversion question</p>
<p>weighted GPA's make a big difference on glass rank. </p>
<p>If your school doesn't weight with its GPA then the class rank won't be as fair-a kid who took 10 AP's and got one B would end up with a lower rank than a kid who got the bare minimum for graduation and then stopped core classes but got A's in all in the system of unweighted GPA for class rank. </p>
<p>The idea of weighted GPAs is to fix this problem when ranking at a school-you get rewarded for your grades and the difficulty of your courseload.</p>
<p>However, when comparing people from different schools, a weighted GPA is useless because it isn't standardized as you can see obviously from this thread. </p>
<p>My school:
A-4.0 B-3.0 C-2.0 D-1.0 +'s and -'s aren't taken into account-which is good if you get an A- but bad if you get a B+.
AP Classes: Shift everything up one. A-5.0 B-4.0 etc.
Honors Classes: These only exist in levels without AP(So the two tracks for English are either 1) Honors Frosh, Honors Soph, AP, AP or 2) Frosh, Soph, Junior, Senior). These get counted normally.
Regular classes: Normally.</p>
<p>Multiply AP classes by 1.2, Multiply Honors classes by 1.1, Multiply College classes by 1.15. </p>
<p>I personally think the system is ridiculously beneficial for the AP classes as opposed to honors which in some cases is just as difficult.</p>
<p>a regular class is 100=4.0, pre-ap class (honnors) = 5.0 AP Class = 6.0</p>
<p>our weighted scale is a 5.86 scale...
UW is like 4.63 or something... Really weird.</p>
<p>weighted ... hah.</p>
<p>A 95-100
B 85-94
C something
D something
F below 70</p>
<p>Regular nonhonors/nonap classes are 4.0 and count on gpa. honors classes are 5.0 and AP classes are 6.0 on qpa's <em>weighted</em> if you take an honors class and you earn, say a 93, you get +3 pts added to your grade because it's an honors class. therefore, you end up with a 96 as your class average and also with 5.0's on your QPA.</p>
<p>If you take an AP and you have a say, 90. They add +6 pts to your grade: and you end up with a 96. in addition, you also get a 6.0 added to your QPA. </p>
<p>Yeah, you may say it's awesome and stuff, but our A's are only from 95-100.</p>