<p>So based on that, am I just screwed over by my UW</p>
<p>My weighted is enough for the top 15% of my graduating class (a very competitive public sending over 30 students a year to top 25 schools [including HYPS])</p>
<p>but my UW is a 2.94 out of 4.00 lol</p>
<p>my graduating class has ~550 students</p>
<p>Am i screwed over for hopkins/cornell ED even with very strong test scores, essays, and ECs</p>
<p>Perhaps not</p>
<p>What is your class rank with the UW GPA?</p>
<p>An UW GPA of 2.94 says your are a “B” student. If I assumed that all of your classes were APs then your WGPA would be 3.94, again implying "B"s. Since you probably didn’t take entirely AP classes, some of your grades were lower than "B"s, right?</p>
<p>Without more details it’s impossible to come up with a remotely intelligent guess about your chances at Hopkins or Cornell. But given what we know right now, I’d have to say it’s a longshot.</p>
<p>It’s hard without being provided any information other than your GPA, but in itself, a 2.94 is a huge turnoff, and I would advise that you take the first semester of senior year and slave over getting good grades to try to bring it at least to a 3.0. I don’t think ED is a good option for you. Good luck though.</p>
<p>Go to an online school or a community college.</p>
<p>I have taken some (2) online courses, however the school does not count that into GPA. The school just gives credits for them</p>
<p>My weighted is a 6.0/7.0 (An A in an AP/H class is a 7, a B is a 6, etc)</p>
<p>So I pretty much have a B average in those classes</p>
<p>However, many kids have gotten into Hopkins (ED) with a 6.0 and lower test scores than me</p>
<p>Same thing for Cornell (RD and ED)</p>
<p>If i were to get all A’s first semester next year (which i could get)</p>
<p>i’d have a 6.34/7.00 (top 7-9% of class)
but i’d still have a 3.19/4.00 lol</p>
<p>Unfortunately, when colleges look at your grades, they won’t be thinking “hmm, according to this school’s weighting system this student is better than others we have admitted”, because colleges consider your weighted GPA only to the extent that it affects your reported class rank. They will be thinking “hmm, this student is taking a challenging courseload, but he is also getting Bs in most of his classes”. </p>
<p>If your high school is as good as you describe, you certainly have a chance at the top universities. But I wouldn’t EXPECT to get into Cornell and Hopkins just because the same weighted GPA as you has gotten others in.</p>
<p>If people in your high school has gotten into those schools with 2.9 in the past and with similar class rank, you probably also have a good chance. I could be wrong, but my understanding is that colleges judge you based on the context of your school. Students in my high school, for example, have trouble getting into competitive schools even with near perfect GPA.</p>
<p>So a less rigorous course load (not filled with only Honors/APs) with the same weighted as me is a better candidate???</p>
<p>oh and If I get A’s senior year the UW only goes up to a 3.29/4.00</p>
<p>my weighted will go up to a 6.29/4.00</p>
<p>there is a possibility i can get 2 grades rounded up (Freshman year science [I got an 89]) and Junior Year Pre-Calc (I got a 79. Ironically I got a 99 in Calc AP, a 5 on the AP test, 800 on Math Level 2, 760 SAT Math, Qualified for the AIME, and am taking Multivariable senior year)</p>
<p>If both are rounded up, I have a 3.38/4.00 and a 6.38/7.00</p>
<p>And in another situation, I can pull a 3.39 and a 6.39</p>
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<p>I don’t know if their UW was a 2.9 because my school’s naviance program only shows their weighted scores. But people with similar weighted as me got into Cornell/Hopkins. I know that none of those who got into Hopkins with a similar GPA got recruited/were URMs. I also know that only 1 of those who had a similar GPA as me got Recruited/URM at the same time got into Cornell.</p>
<p>So based on the Weighted I thought I had a shot. The UW thing is throwing me off though</p>
<p>Here is a way to calculate a more conventional weighted GPA based only on core classes and not electives. While this is patterned after the State U System (SUS) in Florida, it is typically how many schools do their own quick calculations for weighted GPA’s. Most colleges and U’s do not weight AP the same as honors, and give a 0.5 boost to honors and a 1.0 boost to AP/IB. I would recalc your GPA based on this and that tells you what they are looking at. <a href=“http://cyberguidance.net/college/recalgpa.pdf[/url]”>http://cyberguidance.net/college/recalgpa.pdf</a></p>
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Altho with this new info, your probably fine.</p>
<p>The thing is, my UW is pretty solid if a straight 4/7ths conversion is done</p>
<p>then a 6.0/7.0 is a 3.42/4.00</p>
<p>Let me get this straight…</p>
<p>Your school has a 7 point scale with AP “A”=7, B=6, and presumably, C=5, D=4, F=3? You don’t actually get 3 GPA points for failing an AP class do you? That would be statistical manipulation at its worst.</p>
<p>Regardless, colleges will either recalculate your GPA on a 4.0 UW scale or 5.0 Weighted. If not that, they will look at your transcript and see primarily "B"s with the occasional “C” or “A”. </p>
<p>Now here’s the harsh part; don’t count to much on the rigor of your high school to help you either. Sending 30 out of 550 (roughly 5.5%), students to top 25 colleges is hardly excessive for a well funded suburban school. Furthermore, that statistic is only impressive to colleges if you’re one of the 5.5%. Most if not all high schools grade on an absolute level and not a curve. You are a “B” level student because those have been your grades, not because you’re surrounded by high level performers. While attending a school know for its “toughness” will help, it’s not going to vault you over students from other schools with substantially higher GPAs.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to get all "A"s in next year’s APs, get your GPA to 3.0/4.0 and realize that Cornell and Hopkins are going to be difficult ,(not impossible), schools for you to get into.</p>
<p>3.42 isn’t a horrible GPA, but it’s far from exceptional. And as you’ve been told, colleges give very little consideration to what your high school reports as your weighted GPA, because different schools use different weighting systems. And a school where the maximum GPA is 7.0 uses a VERY different weighting system.</p>
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<p>Well the school has Honors/AP classes. In those classes, A=7, B=6, C=5, D=4, F=0
(One has to take an entrance test to be allowed to take honors/ap classes though I’ve done well on all of them which is why I take all honors/AP)</p>
<p>Then there are the other Levels
A: A=6, B=5, C=4, D=3, F=0
R: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, F=0
M: A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0</p>
<p>SunnyFlorida</p>
<p>according to that site, my recalculated UW is a 3.53/4.00 (but that’s only the one based on the additional weights for honors/ap)</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what do the A, R, and M stand for?</p>
<p>Accelerated
Regular
Remedial</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
<p>Yes to your original question.</p>
<p>A very competitive school is one that sends 20% plus to ivies and has an average SAT near 2100. An under 3 unweighted GPA would not get you in from one of them either.</p>
<p>A student in the top 10% but who did not take rigorous classes would not get in either.</p>
<p>the situation with my grades are explained in an essay i wrote (albeit its kind of long)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-essays/754842-does-anybody-want-read-my-high-school-career-story-interesting-ec-essay.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-essays/754842-does-anybody-want-read-my-high-school-career-story-interesting-ec-essay.html</a></p>