I mistakenly reported my GPA as "Weighted" but it is Unweighted and my counselor has mentioned that.

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Should I be worried? My counselor has assessed “Unweighted” in his assessment. P.S. I’m an international student in a place where we don’t have Weighted GPAs. One problem though: I summed my theory and practical marks in the self-reporting Common App section. For instance, I got 74 in Theory in Physics and 23 in Practical. In my transcript, it is

Physics (TH) 74
Physics (PR) 23

But I self reported as
Physics 97

Because I selected “Weighted” mistakenly, will it look like I got a 97 out of 75? And in my transcript, they’ll see 74 in theory. Could that be a dealbreaker? Shall I email them? I called Yale, spoke to admissions officer, and got this reply “We don’t look at self-reported GPA. We look it from Counselor’s assessment and transcript because we know students make mistakes all the time. So you don’t need to do anything” Is it the same with Harvard, Stanford, UChicago, Amherst, Williams? I called them, but I couldn’t reach the admissions office. The person who received the call suggested me to email about this, but here’s a catch: The one who received at UChicago offered to answer my question and after I told him all of this, he said “Did you submit the common app already?” WHAT? So I doubt these people have an idea about this stuff. lol.

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What do you suggest me to do? @skieurope Do you think they look at the self-reported section of the GPA?
P.S. in the above case, Physics 97 (74+23, i.e. Th + Pr) but I just wrote Physics 97.

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Well, you can certainly email a clarification to the colleges, but the Yale response pretty much applies to most colleges.

Every year, I see panicked comments form students who stated that the GPA scale was out of 5 instead of 4. These errors are common.

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Thanks! What about the seemingly “weighted/inflated” grades which in reality is the sum of Theory and Practical? Should I be worried about this in colleges like Stanford that trust students with their self score-report?

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Again, just tell them you added them together instead of reporting them separately.