<p>My ds currently has a 4.295 cumulative GPA. He needs a 4.3 at the end of this semester to receive an award. He asked his guidance counselor how to determine what he needs for his GPA to go up to the 4.3. Guidance counselor couldn't/wouldn't help him. I wrote counselor 2 weeks later and asked the same thing. Counselor told me that he didn't know how to figure it out since a computer did it all. </p>
<p>Is there an online GPA calculator? I tried a few but it didn't take into account weighted grades. At DS's school an AP or honors class A+ is 5.33. A regular class A+ is a 4.33.
DS is taking 3 AP classes and 4 regular classes this semester. Has all A+s now except for regular physics A-. Anyway to tell if he has a chance of raising his GPA to the 4.3?</p>
<p>Tell your S to approach it as a math problem. It’s not like you need calculus to solve it.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>Let’s say that he took 21 classes and has a cumulative GPA of 4.295. That means that he has a total of 90.195 GPA points (21 times 4.295). </p>
<p>And he is taking 7 classes this year. Let’s say that his grades are such that he earns 5 GPA points for each AP class and 4 GPA points for each regular class. That’s a total of 31 GPA points.</p>
<p>For each semester add up the total points and then divided by the number of classes. Then add up all those totals and divide by the number of semesters.</p>
<p>Kajon makes a good point that your calculation needs to be on a semester basis.</p>
<p>Assuming that he’s taken 7 classes per semester for the past 3 years and assuming that all classes are the same credit hours, he’s taken 42 classes total. Add on the 7 classes that he is taking this semester, he’ll have 49 total total classes. </p>
<p>He has a 4.295 average for the first 42 classes taken for a total of 180.39 GPA points (4.295 times 42).</p>
<p>Equation to calculate how many GPA points he needs to get this semester for a 4.3 GPA:</p>
<p>(180.39 + X)/49 = 4.3</p>
<p>Solve for X–X = 30.31 GPA points needed this semester</p>
<p>Divide 30.31 by 7 classes taken this semester and you get 4.33.</p>
<p>So he needs a 4.33 GPA this semester.</p>
<p>Just tell your S to keep working hard this semester.</p>
<p>I’m still trying to figure out how one gets an A+ for a class grade? I’ve not heard of A+s. What is that on the standard 4 point scale? I’ve seen on the kids website that they might have 103 or 110 or something in a class but the best grade one can get is 4.0. Is the A+ what people talk about when they talk about a 5.0 scale?</p>
<p>Ah, I thought kids could only get over a 4.0 if schools weight the grades for AP classes. So the only time I saw in my kids’ on-line grade book over 100 is if they had all 100s and did some extra credit ( so maybe got 10 points for an extra credit assignment). Is that how it works to get an A+? All As and extra credit work? So many variations out there.</p>
<p>In our school district A+ used to be for any extra credit (and all teachers here offer extra credit). Now they made it for anyone with a grade of 98+. That is one of our biggest problems calcualting grades, because the school lists the UW GPA as 4.3 on a 4.0 scale, thoroughly confusing the adcoms. We add .5 for an honors course and 1.0 for an AP.</p>
<p>The Adcoms claim they understand each applicants grading system, but I am not buying it! Example - at our school honors Chem and AP Chem are weighted the same with a .5 bump.</p>
<p>^That’s not that unusual - our school also gives the same weighting to honors and AP. If you read the fine print on the school profile it’s all there!</p>
<p>I’m sure the colleges can figure it out as the formula is generally on the transcript. I just find it interesting the many ways the high schools bolster the GPAs.</p>
<p>UF4METOO, this is what I could determine on his unofficial transcript-
8th grade 2 high school credits
9th grade 8.125 credits
10th grade 8.250 credits
11th grade 7.0 credits
Total- 25.375</p>
<p>12th grade should be 7 credits again
He needs 23 to graduate but he already has those covered.</p>
<p>A+ 4.33
A 4
A- 3.67
B+3.33
B 3
B-2.67</p>
<p>He better not get any Cs!</p>
<p>And yes, you add 1 point for his 3 AP classes.</p>
<p>So hopefully with this information it is still possible.</p>
<p>Mom,
The 4.295 * 25.375 (credits) = 113.8375 “points”
To get to a 4.3 OVERALL GPA, he needs:
from the 7 classes, 30.22 “points” which averages out to a 4.31825 for THESE 7 classes.</p>
<p>If each class is 1 Credit, and he has 25.375 for earlier, then the Total denominator will be 32.375. The Goal (4.3 overall) would need a numerator of 139.2125.
He currently has 108.9856 so he needs (139.2125 - 108.9856 = ) 30.22688 points.
That would net out to (108.9856 + 30.22688) / (25.375 + 7) = 4.3</p>
<p>It helps, thanks. But he needs the 4.3 at the end of the 7th semester (January) to earn the award- not at the end of senior year. Does that make a difference to your calculations?</p>