My School Doesn't Weight GPA

<p>I found out yesterday that honors/AP courses at my school are not weighted at all. I'm still in the top 10% of my class, but that puts many people ahead of me that never took any challenging courses. My unweighted GPA is about 3.6 but every single core class I have taken has been honors or AP. Do I get absolutely nothing for this besides colleges seeing that I took harder classes? How will this effect my chances of admission versus someone who took honors and AP courses at a school that weighs GPA and was weighted up to a 4.0?</p>

<p>most colleges have their own method for weighting grades so it shouldn’t matter at all.</p>

<p>Not to impose on your thread but what does weighted and unweighted GPA actually mean</p>

<p>Well his problem is that it kills his class rank. That happens to me too, and there’s not much you can do about it.</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA is the actual grades you got. Mine were in the low/middle 90’s on average, which goes to a 3.6 or so. However, if I had not taken any honors/AP’s they would probably have been higher, so to adjust for that schools usually increase them by a certain amount. The grade after the slight curve is your weighted GPA. It’s good to know that colleges will weigh them because a 3.6 is not indictative of the difficulty of the work I did. Some of my AP teachers were nuts and gave no one over a 90.</p>