<p>I was wondering how High Schools in Maryland calculate GPA's for honors and advanced placement courses. In my school the highest you can go is 4.0 and the valedictorian only has a 3.9. The closest GPA to that would be a 3.8. Since UMCP says the average GPA is 3.9 I really can't see how its possible. I live in NY, and we don't offer AP courses at my school but rather college credit courses. Is Maryland on a 5.0 scale and that's why the requirement is so high? Also, what exactly is anything over a 4.0 in terms of percent such as 90-100 and what is the letter grade for that particular GPA? My final question is how does a 3.45 unweighted GPA turn into a 4.14 weighted GPA? I would really appreciate any feedback.</p>
<p>Weighted grade points are similar to grade points except that weighted grade
points differentiate between regular courses, honors, advanced level, and
advanced placement courses. Weighted grade points are the numeric equivalent
of a students grade in a credit-bearing course according to the following scale:</p>
<p>Grade 90-100 -> Regular (4) -> Honors (5) -> Advanced Level (5)->AP (5)
Grade 80 89 -> Regular (3) -> Honors (4) -> Advanced Level (4)->AP (4)
Grade 70 -79 -> Regular (2) -> Honors (2) -> Advanced Level (3)->AP (3)
Grade 60 69-> Regular (1) -> Honors (1) -> Advanced Level (1)->AP (1)</p>
<p>Thanks for the information it is greatly appreciated, athough I feel that this definetely puts me at a disadvantage. I receive high 90's in all my honors and college credit courses and don't have close to a 4.0. Unweighted I have a 3.6 and am ranked in the top 12% of my class. The way our grades are calculated are much different than the way it is done there. I wonder if Maryland evaluates new york applicants different from there own. It would seem unfair to take any other approach.</p>
<p>In my school (I live in MD)</p>
<p>Grade 90-100 -> Regular (4) -> Honors (4.5) -> Advanced Level (5)->AP (5)
Grade 80 – 89 -> Regular (3) -> Honors (3.5) -> Advanced Level (4)->AP (4)
Grade 70 -79 -> Regular (2) -> Honors (2.5) -> Advanced Level (3)->AP (3)
Grade 60 – 69-> Regular (1) -> Honors (1.5) -> Advanced Level (2)->AP (2)
JHUMD is offline</p>
<p>Thanks again xsteven I really appreciate the information. In my school we can't go over a 4.0 which is the reason why only one person has a 3.9. I'm hoping that they take this information into consideration when reviewing my application. I have taken every honors and college credit course available. I feel that this will be evident upon their review.</p>
<p>wow, maryland has one easy*** grading scale... UMD does take into account the grading scale when reviewing applications, right?</p>
<p>Yea I couldn't agree with you more, it's a cakewalk. I'm sure they do take into account the different grading scale and they most likely look at the highest GPA in the class to compare.</p>
<p>At my high school the grading scale looks like this:</p>
<p>Grade 93 -100 -> Regular (4) -> Honors (5) -> AP (6)
Grade 85 – 92 -> Regular (3) -> Honors (4) -> AP (5)
Grade 77 - 84 -> Regular (2) -> Honors (3) -> AP (4)
Grade 70 – 76 -> Regular (1) -> Honors (2) -> AP (3)</p>
<p>Based on this scale, I have a 3.9111uw/4.9333w. With that, I am only ranked 40/559. I have gotten two Bs and all As in high school.</p>
<p>When UMD says the average gpa is 3.9 they are talking about the unweighted gpa. As you can see, there are 39 other students in my HS alone that have a higher than 3.9uw gpa. And we have one of the toughest scales out there.</p>
<p>Having said that, I have been told by every college I applied to that they have a profile of high schools like mine and they take that into consideration when comparing gpa and class rank.</p>
<p>It is getting to be so competative out there. I am beginning to believe that in the "not so distant" future, only kids with perfect grades in the most rigorous classes will have the opportunity to go to the best colleges.</p>
<p>For me, I know I did the best I possibly could at all times.</p>
<p>Oh, and those two B's I got. Both were a 92, so at most HS, they would have been A's :-(</p>
<p>They go off the college board scores. If you look at your SAT report it will show what they deem as your gpa. AT least when DS went through last yr that was what we were told.</p>
<p>You might have a 4.9333w, but College board might bring it down to 4.2 (pulling numbers out of the hat for an example). You could also go to a non weighted school and have a 3.6, but college board re-evaluates iit to be 3.9. They have a specific formula that they follow look on your report somewhere near the bottom it should tell you what they deem your gpa is.</p>
<p>I am not sure how collegeboard could report a gpa. As far as I know, they don't have access to high school grades. I am looking at my daughters last score report and there is nothing listed on there regarding a gpa of any sort. Well, there is one section that says grade point average, but it just says A+ and that is from self reported info put in the profile by my daughter.</p>
<p>pima I know you always have great information so I am very reluctant to doubt you but that is definately the first I have ever heard of taking gpa off collegeboard reports</p>
<p>the college board gpa is self reported by the students.</p>
<p>GPA is out of 4.0... So most students have have mostly A's and maybe a few B's or an A/B+ average overall. And SATS are important *** try to get in the mid 1200's- low 1300 range to be sure as this is the median for out of state applicants!</p>
<p>Maybe it was his ACT scores that showed it. I am not sure either how they had it, but it was .25 difference in his advantage. I assume it is because of the wt system we came from. </p>
<p>Either way, everybody should remember that statistically from ly only 1 out of 7 were accepted, and out of that number only @30% were from OOS, and the majority from whom DS knows are from NJ/NY. Bullet went there also and he was from NJ too. My Mom knows many friends who constantly ask for info about UMDCP b/c their gkids are appplying (Central NJ). They say that their gkids are on pins and needles b/c UMD is no longer a school anyone would consider a safety.</p>
<p>30% OOS is actually pretty good considering.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley accepts 8% from OOS. UNC Chapel Hill accepts only 16% - 18% OOS. What I have found so far is that if you are OOS, then you need to be on the higher end of the averages, not in the middle or below. The schools want to bring in kids from OOS that are going to give their numbers a bump up. At least that is what I think. No scientific reasoning of course.</p>
<p>I am not 100% pos about the number, but I remember reading it somewhere last yr. Also remember that includes taking foreign students. UNC on a whole takes 25%, but Chapel Hill is a category on its own, please realize that they have many campuses, Wilmington being very popular. So they can accept 30% OOS at WIlmington and 16% at Chapel Hill to come up with the 25% from OOS. I can tell you the kids that grad. from DS's school in NC and got into Chapel Hill were Valedictorian and salutorian, they were also accepted to Duke.</p>
<p>ALL of that aside, I do agree if you are OOS you are competing against people around the world and it is very competitive. DS had incredible SAT/ACT scores, great gpa. lots of EC's and was accepted to scholars, however he only received a pres scholarship. There were alot more kids with better scores and when you come from OOS 30K a yr is a lot of money.</p>
<p>A lot of the SUNYs make it much easier for OOS to get in because they want more diversity (=prestige). I wouldn't be surprised if some NY residents pretended to be OOS just for the better chance. OOS tuition isn't much higher than instate.</p>
<p>But I'm digressing. Don't have a clue how Maryland views OOS/IS</p>
<p>Just looked up acceptance rates for class of 12. Here is a link
University</a> Acceptance Rate - Revisited | Admission Sync</p>
<p>According to them it is in the 20% rate margin.</p>
<p>Only two years ago they were at 51% for 2006
College</a> acceptance rates: How many get in? - USATODAY.com</p>
<p>US News ranks UMD as a public Ivy. </p>
<p>There is a study out why so many kids aren't getting into what was traditionally a safety and one reason is that students now apply to 10-15 colleges which means the colleges have the pick of the litter. Look at last yr. They had the highest amt of applicants, 28K for 4000 slots. That makes it incredibly competitive. Plus, UMD got rid of wait listing, instead they have freshman 1st, so they accept less transfers since they are sliding kids in who were put on freshman first</p>