<p>I have an unweighted GPA of 3.9688. The college application only give me 2 decimal places, so I just typed it as 3.97. Would that be a problem?</p>
<p>no never round up your GPA, always round down (truncate).</p>
<p>oh no… I already submitted my application…</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters ar all. Most colleges will recalculate your GPA anyway to give their own weighting to honors and AP classes. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>@Jessie05, some people disagree and think standard rounding conventions apply</p>
<p>Duke says "Yes, rounding your GPA to one decimal place using the standard mathematical rounding system is acceptable. For example: if your GPA is a 3.42 you will round to 3.4. Don’t round up more than is consistent with standard rounding conventions. For example: rounding a 3.43 GPA to 3.5 is not acceptable and may be considered academic dishonesty "</p>
<p>Interesting problem: how many distinct grades are required in order to need 4 significant digits to represent a GPA. You would need to have made at least 3-5 distinct (non-repeated) grades in your ~50 classes, wouldn’t you? You must get A- and B+ grades as well? How does it work, something like 48 'A’s, 1 'A-" and 1 ‘B+’? I don’t think that’s it, but something like that? </p>
<p>@Itsjustschool : One semester’s worth of grades would do it. This comes out to a 3.857142857bunchanumbers:</p>
<p>4 - A AP English Lang
4 - A AP World History
4 - A Spanish III honors
4 - A Band
4 - A Orchestra
3 - B AP Calc AB
4 - A Honors chemistry</p>
<p>Haven’t you also had to send a transcript to the school? I assume the long number is on the transcript, so the colleges will see that. I’m sure that out of the thousands of applicants not everyone knows specifically how to round for that college, so you’ll be fine as it is a reasonable way to round.</p>
<p>Edit: If you calculated the long number and your transcript just contains it to the hundreths, I’d just go with whatever’s on the transcript</p>