<p>So, here's the thing. Can you guys help me out a bit?</p>
<p>My freshman year of high school, I THOUGHT I had a weighted cumulative GPA of 4.43. The reason I thought I had a 4.43 was because it showed up on a transcript that my counselor printed out for me, and also on a "college guidance" type website that my counselors set up for students.</p>
<p>As it turns out, that 4.43 GPA is actually 4.29. Now, I realize both are good and I shouldn't be so nitpicky, but the fact of the matter is I have really crazy target colleges and I take it very seriously...So excuse me for that.</p>
<p>Anyway, my cumulative GPA EXCLUDING Freshman P.E. is 4.43.
My cumulative GPA INCLUDING Freshman P.E. is 4.29.</p>
<p>My counselors told me that the transcript they're sending to the colleges I apply to will show the 4.29 GPA!!</p>
<p>My question is: Do the majority of the colleges I'm applying to (in the range of Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, perhaps even the Ivy's) recalculate their own GPA? Will they exclude P.E. and just make it the core subjects, technically "bringing me back to a 4.43" under their own system?</p>
<p>I just find it ridiculous that a P.E. class could reduce me from a 4.43 to a 4.29. It's not so much the GPA itself, but the thought of it...</p>
<p>Please relax. The UCS all exclude PE and only use sophomore/junior classes from the A-G list. There are countless posts on the UC formula.<br>
As far as the other schools I have no idea.</p>
<p>For those colleges, your cumulative GPA is neither of the numbers you give. None of them count PE (vast majority of colleges ignore it). Moreover, those nice A's you might have gotten in Health, vocational studies, or similar courses are going to be ignored also. Stanford, Cornell and other ivies will use your grades in language, social studies, math, English, and lab science and will also redo any weighting that has been done to fite their own method. Berkeley adds art and music to those five, and as a UC, ignores all freshman year grades, and weights based on a prescribed system used by the UC's.</p>
<p>Well, did you just not do gym? Or did you do well and is it simply the fact that this class is worth only 4.0 (not weighted)? If the latter, relax. Every school is like that.</p>
<p>Most schools don't care about your school's gpa, only the given rank. They will recalculate your GPA and take out non academic classes, some will take out freshman year.</p>