For freshman year I had an 87.5 average with one honors class. Sophomore year I had a 93.16 average with 1 AP and a couple of honors courses. This year I’m projecting a 90 average with 2 AP’s, one IB, and I’ve been in advanced math throughout HS. We weight 3.3% for honors classes and 6.6% for AP classes.
On a 4.0 scale, classes convert to
90-100 is 4 points
80-80.99 is 3 points
and so on.
Add 0.5 for honors and 1 for AP to get weighted GPA.
Then recalculate your GPA.
This is the most common formula. Of course now people will post 50 thousand exceptions, but this is the most commonly used.
I would ask your guidance counselor for help so you are sure to do things in accordance with your particular school’s grading system.
Weighted GPAs are not standardized, except when colleges or scholarships do their own recalculations (the best known of these is the UC/CSU method). Some high schools inflate weighted GPAs with exaggerated weightings, possibly hoping that some colleges and scholarships take them at face value (you may be competing against others whose high schools report a 5.something or 6.something weighted GPA).
Oh yes, some inflate like crazy, but across the board the most common weighting on a 4/5 scale is a +1 for AP/IB and either a +0.5 or a + 1 for honors.
My UC GPA is 4.1, if that means anything. Just out curiosity, what would that GPA with a 33/1450 qualify you for OOS? I’m not allowed to apply to any schools west of the Mississippi due to my parents’ unwillingness to pay the airfare to visit, so it’s just pure conjecture and hypothesizing.
UC GPA is based only on 10-11th grades. Many schools/scholarships will look at 9-11th grades and even Mid-year Senior grades. If you are not applying to a UC, then your UC GPA means nothing.