<p>(Sorry, if this has been asked before, but I did a search and couldn't find answer to question below)</p>
<p>How will the high school u.w. GPA change for the following two cases:
(1) Grades A, A, A+, B,B
(2) Grades A, A, A, B, B+</p>
<p>In other words, does it matter if one gets A, A+ or A- in GPA calcs (u.w.)?
Our school gives weighted GPA which is easy to compute. But many colleges apparently do the initial screening based on u.w. GPA. Hence my question.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>If I understand it correctly, unweighted means that the pluses and minuses don't mean anything. So for a college, 3 As and 2 Bs would be 3.6 unweighted, assuming they are all in academic courses (math, science, English, language and social studies).</p>
<p>Will the calculation change if they are all honors and not academic courses? Thanks.</p>
<p>Not in an unweighted system. In the local public school, weighting is a premium added to honors and AP courses. (B=A=4.0; A= Super A? = 5.0). </p>
<p>My son's school does not weight, but does use pluses and minuses. (A=4.0; A- = 3.6; B+ = 3.3, etc.) In the OP examples, both grades would be 3.66 at my son's school. GPA would not indicate level of courses taken; you'd have to read the transcript for that.</p>
<p>What is considered an A for calculating unweighted GPA? My school used to consider 93-100 an A, now it's 90-100.</p>
<p>So it appears that the letter grades are of great importance, irrespective of what the underlying score range is. That is, it apparently doesn't matter whether A is in the range 90-100 or 93-100.</p>
<p>Ok so for my school, I should calculate using the 7-point scale for the first two years and the 10-point scale for this past year (that's when they changed it)?</p>
<p>That is a reasonable method.<br>
Remember that most Colleges will recalcualte your highschool GPA during their internal evaluation.</p>