<p>OK, soooo my HS recently made the move to trimesters. When it was in semesters your GPA was calculated weighted as a=4 A-=3.7 B+=3.3 B=3 and honors (there is no AP option) was given a .5 boost to that class. Now in trimesters it will give a .33 boost but it is in trimesters. I guess they think that now it will still add up 'till one overall point on the year but to me that makes no sense because it is all averaged. Will this lower my GPA if I receive the same grades? Will this hurt my GPA compared to semester system?</p>
<p>The way you explain it, it seems that a mathematically challenged administrator was in charge of the GPA transition. Your GPA will suffer, but so will those of your classmates; your rank should remain unaffected. It shouldn’t take them long to see their mistake and fix the formula.</p>
<p>Do your best, and don’t worry.</p>
<p>My school does not rank.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how your high school chooses to calculate GPA. Universities will be recalculating your GPA at their own discretion.</p>
<p>As a number on its own, GPA means nothing. There are some schools that ridiculously inflate grades and other schools that rarely graduate 4.0 students. Your GPA is considered in the context of your other academic statistics (SAT, AP, teacher rec commentary, etc).</p>
<p>All universities recalculate? That would be great!</p>
<p>Not all. UChicago doesn’t recalculate, as far as I remember, and I’m sure there are others.</p>
<p>more and more schools don’t recalculate. it’s time consuming for them so they are trying to find more efficient ways to evaluate applications.</p>