<p>At my school GPAs are given as a number rather than on the 4.0 scale. I have an average of 80, and I've seen it called anywhere from a 2.7 to a 3.1.</p>
<p>So, my question is does it depend on the college or is there some official scale for GPA conversions I'm not seeing?</p>
<p>My school does that, too. When I wanted to see what my GPA on a 4.0 scale was, I found that it sort of takes into account your grade within a subject, and the hours per week you take that subject. I don’t know if I did it correctly, but that’s what most people and websites said to do. :)</p>
<p>In the simplest situation, all your classes are year-long courses with a single final grade.</p>
<p>Here, you just take each final grade and convert, typically using the scale 90+ = 4, 80-89 = 3, 70-79 = 2, 65-69 = 1, <65 = 0.</p>
<p>Then you add those up and divide by the number of courses.</p>
<p>If you have semester-long courses, or you get two semester grades per course and no overall final grade, then you would need to do some weighting.</p>
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What? Typically, when you compute a GPA on a 4.0 scale, you count each semester once, and therefore each year-long course twice. You don’t take an average for the whole year. I’ve never heard of or seen any institution do this…</p>
<p>Some kids seem to get a grade for each semester in a year-long course. I had not seen this done before, but there are kids who report their grades this way on this forum, so I gather there are schools that do it this way.</p>
<p>I never took a semester course in high school, so I didn’t have to count year-long courses twice and semester courses once (that’s what I meant by weighting the average); I just added up my year-end grades and divided by the number of classes I took.</p>
<p>My school does this too. I had a question concerning weighted vs unweighted GPA. I recently found out that some schools actually add like 0.5 to honors/AP classes GPA, but at my school we get an extra 3 points added to our final semester grade instead. So to find my UW GPA would I subtract the 3 points and then find the GPA of the new number? Or would I simply leave my 3 points? </p>
<p>I would appreciate if someone could answer this.</p>
<p>You have to evaluate each class against the 70/80/90 rubric to see what your GPA is.</p>
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Yeah, to find unweighted you’d take away the three points and then calculate. To find weighted, you’d still take out the 3 points and convert to a 4.0 scale, then change an A in an AP course to a 5 and an A in an honors course to a 4.5, which I think is how MOST high schools do it.</p>