<p>I know I'm supposed to just put the unweighted GPA from my transcript onto applications, but what about weighted GPA?</p>
<p>Do I include 9th grade? And do classes like PE and ROP count toward GPA? </p>
<p>I was a huge slacker in 9th grade, and I've also taken a number of electives throughout HS. If I include all of them, my weighted GPA is a 4.2, but if I don't it's a 4.5.</p>
<p>How are we supposed to calculate our weighted GPAs, or do colleges do it for us?</p>
<p>You should have a high school tanscript that has a calculated gpa. Whatever that number is you should put down. If it is a weighted number with all electives included…put it down as is. Colleges will all recalculate gpa’s if they choose, using their own formulas. What you self report just has to match what is on your transcript.</p>
<p>No one really cares about W GPA. They of course take it into consideration, but they’re not going to weigh it.</p>
<p>Rather, the standard is basic. For all core classes - electives/gym and health don’t count - multiply the credits in the class times the following based on your grade:</p>
<p>A+ and A = 4
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3
B- = 2.7
C+ = 2.3
C = 2
C- = 1.7</p>
<p>Then divide by total credits. If you took two classes, for example, and got a A and B in them, both 1 credit each, your GPA would be:</p>
<p>4(1credit) + 3(1credit) = 7
7/2(total credits) = 3.5</p>
<p>This is what colleges use, and they look at your rigor, but don’t use W GPA. None of the top ones, at least, some state large publics use whatever your transcript says and just glance as they have like 200k apps.</p>
<p>Sorry but I would never recommend to anyone to re-calculate their gpa so that it does not match their official high school transcript. And you cannot assume that the method you use, is the one any one particular college uses.</p>
<p>For starters, there are high schools that give numeric grades, others that use a 5.0 scale. Those that give plusses and minuses and those that don’t.</p>
<p>Your transcript and school report will tell the colleges how your grades were calculated and on what scale.</p>
<p>Just self report what your transcript says–weighted or not.</p>
<p>I wasn’t suggesting he/she recalculate.</p>
<p>I was saying that this is what colleges will recalculate the GPA to.</p>
<p>:)</p>