<p>I have just heard from my counsellor that the full point of our school students' GPA is 4.3, which means I will get a even lower GPA.(My current percentage is about 86%). 60% is 0.0 on GPA on Princeton review, and some student can get 5.0 for honor or AP course? What is that? It stuns me!</p>
<p>Don’t worry about weighted GPA’s. Most colleges don’t really look at it as the calculation is different at every school. The admissions couselors will have some expertise in your geographic area, so by looking at the classes you took as well as your grades, they will be able to see to what level of rigor you pushed yourself compared to what your school has to offer. Some will even recalculate it using their own formula.</p>
<p>Your high school sends a “school profile” that explains how your school generates GPAs. So the colleges know how to compare your GPA to someone from a different school. In the U.S. every school system is free to do it their own way. Some schools don’t even provide numerical or letter grades and write evaluations instead (though this is rare)! Some kids are home-schooled. etc. etc.
So the admissions officers are experts in knowing how to compare kids from different school systems. Also, they look at the entire transcript not just the GPA to see the difficulty level of courses you took, versus what is available.</p>
<p>The thing is: I don’t think different calculate will be unfair for me, but different calculation would alter my choices of school and affect my preparation.</p>
<p>Martin - does your school subscribe to Naviance? If so, it can help you calibrate GPAs from your school with acceptance rates at various colleges. Talk to your guidance councilor.</p>
<p>The school profile sent with your transcript gives colleges the information they need to understand how your school calculates GPA. My very competitive public kid’s HS does not weight at all for honors courses so the GPA always looks low – but there has never been a problem getting students into the top schools. In some cases a college will recalculate a student’s GPA based on their own factors (ex. academic classes only, weighting honors classes or not). It should not be an issue. And I agree, that if you have Naviance, that would be a useful tool for you to understand how your HS grades are understood by college admissions.</p>
<p>In Florida here.</p>
<p>Regular: A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1
Honors: Regular x 1.125
AP: Regular x 1.5</p>
<p>Is that what you’re asking?</p>
<p>Yes, thank you every body!</p>
<p>cltdad：My school student has some sort of average GPA of 102…</p>
<p>Just make sure Honors classes are clearly marked as such on the transcript. My son’s private school considered all their classes as Honors which they said was in the school profile. Sounds nice, but after doing research with university H was told that unless a class is specifically designated Honors it will not be counted as such for GPA calculation. The university runs its thousands of applications through a computer that does the recalculation of GPAs to their formula before they get to admissions. Long story short–The GC talked to the university and had the school change their course designations to indicate Honors.</p>
<p>I will stress that many schools will recalculate your GPA as others have said. They may use all your coursework, or perhaps only your academic classes. Every schools is different. As has been pointed out, the transcript is accompanied with a ‘profile’ which gives context to your grades. It gives the grading scale, any weighting, highest GPA in your class, grade distribution, avg state and school SAT/ACT scores, how many/which APs where offered, any type of specialty programs (IB, Cambridge, etc.). For schools that do not recalculate it tells them what your stated GPA really means.</p>
<p>Just to be clear–The university would not give added weight to a course for GPA calculations based on a school profile. Courses had to be designated Honors on the transcript.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone…! The thing is: I am afraid that my high school shows GPA clearly and the college will not recalculate it if my transcript shows no big difference and because there are too many students.</p>