<p>I'm a Junior who is considering selective universities.
Although I got 4.0 unweighted gpa in this first semester, I got only 4.2 weighted gpa.
To raise my weighted gpa, should I quit taking some regular classes and take some online AP classes? Since I've already finished two online AP classes in this semester, I can surely finish two more APs on the time and get A's. I'm sure that if I would do this, I would get about 4.6 gpa. </p>
<p>But weighted gpa is so important?? Do selective universities care about weighted one as well as unweighted one?</p>
<p>They don’t really care about the number because every school weights GPA differently. They care about the unweighted and whether or not you took rigorous classes.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t have many honors classes, and we don’t even weight GPA, but the highest possible GPA in theory at my school is like a 4.3.
I don’t think it’s possible to have a 5.0 weighted unless you take all honors classes, which isn’t even possible at most places.</p>
<p>Yeah. Actually, any students in my school have to take religion class, so the highest gpa is no more than 4.8. </p>
<p>I won’t quit taking my current regular classes. But I’ll take as many AP classes as possible to show that I’m capable of taking rigorous classes.</p>
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<p>I agree with this completely. Our school doesn’t even weight GPA’s, and I ended up fine in the end. I would think that in order for colleges to standardize GPA’s for admissions, they would look at the unweighted GPA’s of everyone and then see what courses they took.</p>
<p>Some colleges have a standardized method of calculating weighted GPAs for their own purposes (California and Florida public schools, for example).</p>
<p>Others just look at the courses and grades holistically.</p>
<p>Since i’m going to apply to some of UCs, I’m kinda worried by how the grading system of uc affects my gpa. </p>
<p>My classes:
Elective
US History
English III
PE
Religion III
AP Statistics
(The following is my online classes)
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics C Mechanics (from the next semester)
AP Physics C E&M (same)
AP Biology (maybe)</p>
<p>I wish my classes would look rigorous to universities of my choice.</p>
<p>Here is how CSU calculates GPA:
[CSUMentor</a> - Plan for College - High School Students - GPA Calculator](<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU)
UC is the same, except that if 12th grade course grades are available, CSU counts them but UC does not (no difference if you apply as a high school senior).</p>
<p>You can look up what courses satisfy what a-g requirements and what courses count as honors as a California public or private high school here:
[University</a> of California Doorways Home](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/doorways/]University”>http://www.ucop.edu/doorways/)</p>