<p>So before yesterday, I was in the second quarter of my class...I was in the top 28% tile, but I knew that it was wrong...because I make pretty good grades and take the most demanding curriculum with my school...I do procrastinate a lot, but I wouldn't expect to have that low of a GPA... I hand calculated my GPA and it always came out to be much higher than what my transcript said. I got angry last year when this first occured, and the counselor made up some reason why it was so low and told me to just "try better"...then this year (I'm graduating a year early) my rank dropped below the 30% tile!!</p>
<p>I freaked out and started complaining to my counselor and registrar (which then led to them contacting the administration office to discover why), and it turns out that all of my classes starting from sophomore year (last year) were input a level down. So if I took an AP class, I only got honors credit. If I took an honors class, I only got regulars credit. If I took a regulars class, I received introductory level credit. My GPA before was a 4.03 out of of a 5.0 scale. Now, since it has been recalculated, my GPA is a 4.479 on the 5.0 scale..yeah...big jump. Now I'm one or two people away from top 10%. I almost cried with joy, but then I felt a wave of anger...like, if I was this highly ranked all along, I probably would have applied to higher tier universities...my ACT score is a 27 (29 superscore), but my rank has been killing me...what should I do? I haven't received any decisions back yet, so should I call all of the universities to which I applied and tell them what happened? I can probably get in to the universities I applied early too regardless (they were back ups anyways)...but should I still do it?</p>
<p>No. The school should do this, particularly since it was their fault. Ask them to call all the schools and follow up with updated info. If they won’t have your parents push the issue.</p>
<p>this is quite serious. It appears from the transcript that adcoms have/will review that you took an easy course load when in fact you took very hard courses. It would potentially make the difference between getting into the #80 school in USNWR, to which your grades probably match, vs. the #45 school, hypothetically. It’s huge.</p>
<p>If I were you I would contact every school I applied to and let them know about the clerical error and that they should be expecting a corrected transcript from the school within the next 10 days. But put a rush on it… some RD files are being reviewed right now, and if yours is one, it won’t fare as well as it would with your true transcript.</p>
<p>Additionally, merit award dollars are/have been awarded, and that pool of money shrinks as the RD session goes on. You want this fixed yesterday.</p>
<p>How is it possible that you never reviewed a copy of your transcript for accuracy?</p>
<p>^ that’s the problem adchang, if I read correctly – OP’s class titles were downgraded… AP is listed only as Honors, and Honors is listed as Regular. The classes listed are incorrect. If that is not the case, you are correct that the listed GPA doesn’t matter since the college will recalculate.</p>
<p>There is another piece of paper sent in by the G Counselor that talks about what level of classes you took. I think the question is something like “This student took the most difficult course load, somewhat difficult, average course load or below average” You need to find out how your GC answered this question. If she doesn’t know you, then most likely she just took the info from your errant transcript.</p>
<p>Well, far as I understood the courses were WEIGHTED wrong, but they still appeared with the correct course names and difficulty level.</p>
<p>Anyways, my GPA is probably around a 4.3 weighted and a 3.9-something unweighted because our weighting is pretty minimal. Using myself as an example, what the people look at are the 3.9 out of 4.0 and the column of AP/H next to my course names which make a 3.9 a lot heftier than a 4.0 with normal courses.</p>
<p>It’s a bit hard to understand how they consistently got every class wrong. And equally hard to understand how you missed this for years. OP, how did this happen?</p>
<p>I really don’t know. Like really, lol. Thats what I’ve been wondering. I know my english 4 course was put on the intro. level because it was regulars and on my transcript from the college it said I earned 4 points…and it is weighted. Unweighted I have a 3.39…yeah, I k. My transcript is FILLED with 89’s…will most universities just covert those to 90’s? If so, I’d have like a 3.7-3.8 gpa…I go to a very competitive school. The Val makes 98-100’s in all of her classes. So will weighted not really matter anyways? Oh, and on my transcript it was noted as ap/dc/honors/regulars correctly, but the grade points were put in wrong. Believe me, if I saw honors for a course I took AP, I would’ve gotten it fixed immediately. The error would be apparent and my counselor/registrar wouldn’t have had a difficult time figuring out why. My number one choice is oxford college of Emory…I submitted my new transcript today (they never got my old one)…do you think that it would have made a difference of my uw gpa didn’t change? This is my rank</p>
<p>The school isn’t going to round your 89s for you at all. Even with the new GPA, you’re not in the top 10% and you unweighted GPA is very low. To get into Emory, you better have written some awesome essays and have great ECs</p>
<p>I’d like to mention my school has 93’s as the lowest A’s. If 90’s were A’s at my school, I’d be straight A’s with one B (lol, AP Spanish). So I have no sympathy for those who Q_Q about 89’s.</p>
<p>No, I’m trying to get into Oxford college (average gpa: 3.5), not Emory College (average gpa: 3.79 or so…)…and that really sucks. </p>
<p>So will my weighted gpa make a big difference? That’s the scale my school uses to determine rank. Also, I live in Texas, so it’s the scale used to determine top 10% eligibility.</p>