Hello,
I’m a rising junior and my highschool GPA for sophomore year was a 3.3 (unweighted) and a 3.5 (weighted) I took 8 classes this year and each one had one credit. In Freshman year, i was in a different school (homeschooled) and took 7 courses with 0.5 credit for each class. So all in all, i’m a B+ average student.
My district also has no A+, A-, etc, weighting. 90-100 is just A.
I want to know, however, how much i can get my GPA up, both weighted and unweighted. For homeschool, i only took one honors course but that was not by my choice, rather my school decided to just randomly put me in honors geography. This year, i took 2 honors course and 2 APs. If next year, lets say i take all honors and AP’s and get all A’s, how much, estimated, would my GPA go?
Also would Dual Enrollment help to get your gpa up?
Hi! Taking APs and Honors and earning As in them will definitely boost up your GPA! Each high school is different in calculating, and some schools recalculate your GPA.
I would try using: High School GPA Calculator and toggle around with your GPA! You can play around with the grades. Hopefully this is helpful. 
Weighted GPA only really matters within your high school as every high school does it differently. Many high schools use weighted GPAs to determine class ranking but beyond that it doesn’t have much use. Unless you are in a state that uses class rank for college admissions, it really doesn’t matter. Even then, you need to figure out how your school does it. If you can’t find something on the school website telling the weighting methodology, you can ask your guidance counselor. Your guidance counselor should also be able to tell you how they are treating your home school courses.
1 Like
I understand! When you mean that my GPA will definitely boost, how much will it boost?
With just a quick, generic calculation, all As should increase each between 0.2 and 0.3 points.
On the other hand, how realistic is it that you go from B+ average with a mix of regular, honors, and AP, to straight As with full honors+AP?
In terms of college admissions
- steady Improvements in results and rigor will help with admissions
- you’d need to look for colleges for B+ students regardless as your gpa would hit a ceiling at 3.5-3.6. (“A+ colleges for B+ students” lists will help with ideas.)
I suggest spending a few minutes to understand how a GPA is
calculated, as well as researching to find how your school does weighting. It’s pretty straightforward algebra, but it can’t be done correctly without understanding exactly how your school weights, whether you have courses weighted more than others (lab courses, courses that don’t meet every day, etc.), and other factors.
Rather than having strangers guess at a ballpark number, you should be able to calculate it exactly in just a few minutes.