<p>I don't know how, but my weighted GPA ended up lower than my unweighted. My unweighted is at about a 3.7 and my weighted is a 3.6. </p>
<p>Will this hurt me in admissions?</p>
<p>That is not possible.</p>
<p>Apparently it is. My school uses a REALLY weird system to calculate GPA and somehow (despite my A+ grades in AP classes) my weighted GPA is lower. This really stinks for me because our ranks our decided by our weighted GPAs and because mine is lower, I’m not in the top 10%.</p>
<p>Can you please explain your school’s system?</p>
<p>For unweighted GPA, whether you get a 100 or a 91, you still get credited all 4 points. 81-90 = 3 points. 71-80 = 2 points. 61-70 = 1 point. Anything lower than that, no points.</p>
<p>For weighted GPA, each individual point counts. In an AP class, a 100 would be a 5.5, 99 = 5.4, 98 = 5.3, etc…</p>
<p>I agree with the other posters, it does not seem possible that a weighted GPA could be lower.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how that could yield a lower weighted GPA. What am I missing?</p>
<p>Does that mean honors/regular goes 4.5-3.5 for an A?</p>
<p>GPA does not mater, rank does. If you’re not in the top 10%, don’t expect to get into colleges where the vast majority are.</p>
<p>Using your example, you would still receive 4.5 for 90%, which is still higher than the 4 you would receive for a normal class</p>
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For an AP, but perhaps it would just be a 3.5 in a regular class.</p>
<p>Somethings way off here… But to answer your original question - no it will not hurt you because just about all good colleges recalculate GPA anyhow, so they will account for any strangeness in your schools weighing…</p>
<p>I don’t know. I’ve asked my school about this multiple times and they just keep saying, “that’s just the way it works out sometimes.”</p>
<p>I just printed out the transcript my counselor e-mailed me and when they divide to get the averages, they include classes I don’t get credit for (PE, study period, etc.).</p>
<p>Shouldn’t they only divide by the number of classes I’m getting credit for? If so, this is making a HUGE difference. I only have 21.5 credit classes, but I have 26.5 total classes.</p>
<p>Could this be what’s causing the problem?</p>
<p>They’re dividing your credits by more than the number of classes you get credit for? Yes, that’s a problem.</p>
<p>If you go to a very good school it’s just strange. If you go to a public HS it’s just incompetence. Ask another local GC.</p>
<p>I just looked at the transcript a little bit more and (I think) I was wrong about the 26.5 classes thing. This might get confusing. Here’s how they do weighted GPA:</p>
<p>Each class I take counts per semester. (Geometry = 2 semesters, Psychology = 1 semester.) So, if I take seven classes for credit and each one is two semesters long, we get a total of 14 semesters.</p>
<p>Then, for each semester, they take the GPA for each class (APs, Pre-APs, Honors, and Dual Credit all get the extra weight). Since all of these are two-semester classes, they add the total GPAs for all of the classes together. Then, they divide by 14.</p>
<p>Apparently, they do unweighted GPA the same way, but don’t include “bonus points” from AP, Pre-AP, Honors, and Dual Credit classes.</p>
<p>OP, as other posters said, it doesn’t appear possible to have a higher UW GPA. We can check the math for you if you’ll give us the total number of semester-length classes you’ve taken. If you take 7 periods, that should be 14 semesters a year. If you’re currently a senior, you should have 14 x 3 = 42 semester-length classes. </p>
<p>For unweighted, 100-91 is an A is 4.0. 90-81 is a B is 3.0. 80 -71 is a C is 2.0. Look at how many A’s, B’s, and C’s you have (and D’s and F’s, if that applies). Your UW GPA should be
[(# of A’s x 4) + (# of B’s x 3) + (# of C’s x 2)]/(number of semester classes)</p>
<p>For weighted, make yourself up a sheet with 100-70 on one column, and the corresponding weighted grade in another column. 100 = 5.5, 99 = 5.4, etc etc. I see that 90 = 4.5, 80 = 3.5, and 70= 2.6. You’ll notice that for every grade, you are getting more points than you receive under the unweighted scheme. It’s impossible for you to get less. </p>
<p>Sum up all of the weighted points for your grades, then add the unweighted points for the classes that can’t be weighted, and divide them by the number of semester classes. Does this match up with the number you are getting from your school? If not, you’ll need to ask them where it goes wrong. Or, give us the numbers and people here can help you check.</p>
<p>It may be that there is some other nuance that needs to be taken into account. It is a very good idea for you to check your GPA yourself and make sure that it matches up with the school’s version. Schools do make mistakes. Even entire school districts make mistakes.</p>
<p>yeah. thats kinda weird. i attend a school in los angeles and for some reason i have a 3.7 unweighted and a 3.4 weighted. and i was wondering why that was til i found out that the weighted is the uc gpa and doesnt included freshman year.</p>
<p>this is kind of silly. just self-report a number. then send in your transcript and itll be fine.</p>
<p>my complaint is my school goes by the 7 point system. it makes no sense, and all my B’s would have been A’s had the 10 point scale been in place. its not like my school’s easy either (26th or something in USNWR). so, my GPA is a tad lower than what what i would consider comparable students at comparable institutions.</p>