<p>Please respond. I really need to know that for this program I'm applying.</p>
<p>You have not provided sufficient information. There are many ways to calculate weighted GPA as well as multiple ways to calculate unweighted GPA. The most common unweighted calculation when there aren’t pluses or minuses in play is to value A’s as 4.0, B’s as 3.0, C’s as 2.0, D’s as 1.0, and F’s as 0.</p>
<p>I am a straight A student.</p>
<p>But I have 3 A+ and 2As</p>
<p>Am I to assume, then, that the remainder of your grades are A-? How many A-'s is that? Does your school distinguish among those grades when calculating unweighted GPA? What value do they assign to each grade?</p>
<p>See: [Yale</a> University GPA Calculator](<a href=“http://thegpacalculator.appspot.com/college/yale]Yale”>http://thegpacalculator.appspot.com/college/yale)</p>
<p>To adjust scale, on the right hand side of the page, see “Change Grade Mapping.”</p>
<p>If you’ve had straight As all through high school, your unweighted is a 4.0 which is higher than your weighted which doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>Thanks for the helpful link, gibby.</p>
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<p>The OP may be treating mostly A-'s as still reason to characterize his or her performance as “straight A’s” but attend a school that valuates A-'s lower than 4.0.</p>
<p>Oh, whoops sorry I didn’t know any schools did that lol. In my school district, pluses/minuses aren’t counted in the GPA.</p>
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So what would be the point of awarding a plus or minus if it doesn’t affect your GPA?</p>
<p>Our district doesn’t award pluses/minuses.</p>
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<p>Finer levels of distinction, even when they do not translate to distinguishable GPA outputs, do hold some utility in their ability to motivate students who care about their grades independent of the resultant GPA. Many schools offer A+'s for this reason but do count each as a 4.0.</p>
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That may have been true in grade school but I doubt the kid who got an A instead of a A+ would care one bit if his GPA was the same.</p>
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<p>Why? Neither grades nor GPA’s hold intrinsic meaning, but that does not imply that we can not perceive them as meaningful without the dependence of some other metric, such as perception of college admissions chances; we regularly derive non-pragmatic meaning. Even in the cases in which we do not imbue that meaning, we can hypothesize the existence of such dependence on the grades themselves, such as one’s peers’ opinions of academic competency, which are unlikely to be blind to grades in narrow lieu of GPA. Whether it should matter is a separate consideration, but it seems certain that it would matter to some people.</p>
<p>I thought weighting had to do with the level of the course, meaning AP, Honors and IB classes would get extra points or “weighting” because they are more challenging.</p>
<p>Anyway, I would think that admissions offices would prefer to add the extra pints themselves to the raw GPA’s of applicants so that the system is uniformly applied for apples to apples comps of applicants…</p>
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Actually, I think most institutions use unweighted GPA for that reason. They look at the honors and AP classes to determine how rigorous of a curriculum the student took. It really wouldn’t be fair to use weighted GPA as some schools have 15 or more AP classes available while others have none or a limited number.</p>
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<p>Yes; we were discussing the methods for calculating unweighted GPA’s.</p>
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<p>Admissions officers at holistically reviewing colleges generally look over the transcript rather than focus on the numerical GPA anyways, so recalculating would not be worthwhile. Additionally, to apply a standardized method of weighting would do nothing to address the significantly unequal way in which grades themselves are awarded across different high schools and the contrasting curricular offerings.</p>
<p>Where do you go to school, Silverturtle?</p>
<p>There was a confusion.
I had straight As in my mid year examination.
3.95 was my old GPA. The one entered in common app.
Thank you for your responses. I have it sorted with my counsellor now, who was absent for quite some time. </p>
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<p>I am currently taking a couple non-credit extension classes through Harvard while on leave from Brown. I am unsure where I will be next semester.</p>