<p>For those colleges (about half of them) that DON'T recalculate the GPA, and those high schools that DO weight honors/AP grades, what the adcoms want to see on a transcript, weighted individual grades, or unweighted individual grades? (or both?). Our HS currently only shows unweighted grades. Is this disadvantaging our students in any way?</p>
<p>some schools my son will be applying to do not recalculate but when i asked about weighted they strongly suggested the weighted be on the transcript as they take the transcript as is…so if someone else shows a weighted, your child’s gpa could look lower. my son’s school does not usually weight, but i asked the counselor if it was possible to show a weighted on the transcript for certain schools, and as far as i know they are going to do that for us</p>
<p>Parent 56, do you mind saying which schools made this suggestion?</p>
<p>ones i know for sure are Univ of AL, UAB and Indiana University</p>
<p>This seems completely absurd. Our HS doesnt weight and it doesn’t rank. And if a college doesn’t look at what classes a kid took and only uses the GPA? Not sure what I’d think of that particular school. There is a big difference between the student who earns a 4.0 taking nothing but skirting by and the kid with a 3.8 who is also an AP scholar with distinction or merit finalist or …</p>
<p>at least here in alabama, i actually think it makes sense, very few schools here even offer ap or honors courses except in the few larger cities like birmingham, huntsville, mobile and montgomery, alot of rural school system etc. In order for the majority of alabama students to be on a level playing field, the university takes the gpa as presented. It is clearly stated on their web page, that if a weighted is provided they will take it, but they do not recalculate. sure it is better if they would weight my son (who has taken ap and honors) but they put the burden on the student to show any weighted gpa,that really isnt that hard. they do look at the courses taken and level through the application which asked for that information</p>
<p>oops that should have been ap/honors really only in the large cities,
AND alot of rural systems dont offer ap/honors</p>