I don't know how to calculate this.

Applying to College
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<p>I'm trying to figure out my unweighted GPA is.</p>

<p>My weighted GPA is 4.2. At my school if you get a 90 in a regulars course, then you would get a 3.0. If you get a 90 in an AP/IB/honors course, you get a 4.0. Since there are a certain number of classes that you HAVE to take regulars, nobody has a GPA higher than about a 4.46. </p>

<p>If I add up all my grades however with 100=4.0 and 99=3.9, my unweighted GPA seems REALLY low. Receiving a 90 or 91 in a tough IB course is considered excellent among everybody at my high school, but for some reason it seems a little strange for me to say that my GPA is a 3.4 or 3.5 since my courses are so hard (I'm in IB Diploma) and my grades are considered good (I'm ranked 14th in my class out of 500). </p>

<p>Sorry that I'm really naive about this, but could anybody help me?</p>

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<p>I assume you don't do A, B, C, etc.</p>

<p>Convert all your numericals into letter grades (to the nearest whole number):</p>

<p>93-100 = A
90-92 = A-
87-89 = B+
83-86 = B
80-82 = B-
77-79 = C+
and it repeats...</p>

<p>When you have all your classes in letter grades use this scale to convert it to 4.0</p>

<p>A = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3.0
B- = 2.7
C+ = 2.3
and it repeats...</p>

<p>Add up all your total points (out of 4.0) and divide by the number of classes you are taking. For example, if I took 3 classes and got an A, A-, and B in them i would do 4 + 3.7 + 3 which is 10.7 / 3 classes = 3.57</p>

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<p>^^^where did u get that?</p>

<p>normally its 4 for an A, 3 for a B, so on...</p>

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<p>My GC told me most private schools use 93-100=A, but that most public use 90-100=A.</p>

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<p>In college, we use the scale that admanrich typed out. A+ also counts as 4.2 or 4.3, I believe. (A+ is very rare.) In high school, B+ and B- were weighted the same... as Cooldude said, A (90-100)=4, B (80-89.99)=3, etc.</p>

<p>So to the op, I don't know which scale you should use, but definitely 99 is not 3.9.</p>

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<p>I go to a public HS and we use that scale. I believe most colleges use the same one. We don't weight grades at my school nor do we give A+'s.</p>

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<p>Not true. Standard in our district is 94-100 =A, 93=A-, 90-92=B+. Middle class suburban district; half the kids go to four year schools, so not uber-competitive or academic.</p>

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<p>At my school it is simply </p>

<p>A - 4.0
B - 3.0
C - 2.0</p>

<p>and so on.</p>

<p>For a weighted GPA, we give a 4.5, 3.5, 2.5, etc for honors courses. Some AP course are honors, some aren't.</p>

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<p>I am having so much trouble with this! None of my teachers had any idea what unweighted GPA even meant. I am using my official transcript of courses from freshman year to end of junior year to calculate.</p>

<p>I used this system
93-100 = A = 4.0
90-92 = A- = 3.7
(it was in the third post)
and my UW GPA came out to 3.91.</p>

<p>Then I did it with A = 4 and B = 3 and so on and it came out to a 4.0 (out of the 47 grades I'm going off of, only 3 are Bs).</p>

<p>So which one should I use?</p>

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<p>I personally don't see any harm in using the scale that gives you a 4.0. It's legitimate; many high schools use that. If you feel like that's "cheating" (which I don't think it is), feel free to call the colleges that you're interested in applying to and ask them what scale they prefer students to use when recalculating GPA.</p>

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<p>at my public high school the scale is</p>

<p>A/A+ = 4.0
usually 93-100 each teacher has their own scale</p>

<p>A-= 3.75
B+=3.25
B =3.0
B-=2.75</p>

<p>and so on</p>

<p>honors courses are given no extra weight. and AP's are given a full point bonus</p>

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<p>It would DEFINITELY be cheating to say you're unweighted GPA is 4.0 if you have any B at all. For an UW to be 4.0 you have to have ALL A. The weighted part is when you count the IB classes as having more credit.</p>

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<p>Ok well if that would be cheating, then what do you suggest?</p>

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<p>Did you round up? Because you said that on the 90-100=A=4 scale, you got 4.0, despite your B's.</p>

<p>I agree with orjr that 4.0 should mean all A's, no weighting for honors/AP. Make sure you take that into account and perhaps do the calculation again. Go to 2 decimal places or something.</p>

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<p>Yeah, sorry for being snippy. The calculator I was using was my little sister's Disney Princess one that apparently cannot use decimal places.</p>

<p>If I do it that 90-100 = A = 4.0, then the GPA comes out to 3.96. </p>

<p>Does that way of calculating/end result sound OK with everybody? And by OK, I mean does it sound fair...I know that nobody REALLY cares what my unweighted GPA is. I know a lot of schools recalculate your GPA for you based on their system...I'm just trying to fill out the "Part I"/Pre-Application type things for schools like USC.</p>

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<p>Yes! I think that is what they are looking for and 3.96 accurately reflects your great (but not perfect) grades. The weighted GPA would be where you give the extra .5 for honors / AP / IB whatever.
3.96 is a great GPA and also accurate.</p>

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<p>I agree with orjr. Sounds good.</p>

<p>P.S. My high school only did extra .2 for honors/AP. I guess this is another place where you can choose your scale =]</p>