Need help with GPA question!

Applying to College
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<p>My daughter attended first two years of HS in town A, second two years in town B. Town B seems to be calculating her GPA using only her grades there, as opposed to using her grades from both schools. Though I am having a hard time getting a definite answer from them on what they are doing. Every time I ask, I feel like I'm not getting an adequate answer. I know that it sounds like I am not trying hard enough to get an answer, but really, I am. He says something like: "We transpose all of her grades from Town A into our equivalent, and calculate the GPA from that," or something like that.</p>

<p>Her grades in Town A are very, very good. Her grades in Town B are even much better than that. I am sure that her GPA is higher if all they used are the Town B grades. </p>

<p>I don't want colleges to look at her transcripts, look at her GPA, and say, "That GPA looks inflated," and I'm afraid that's what they will do. I would rather the GPA be accurate and lower, than have it look better and not be accurate.</p>

<p>Does anyone have any experience with GPA being calculated from two different transcripts? Or transcripts from one town being transposed into one from another town?</p>

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<p>Not sure about the calculating the GPA stuff, but my daughter went to two high schools as we moved and she did have the option of being taken out of the rankings as the weighting and grading were different from school to school. That might be something you want to ask about. Also, the common app I think does ask if you went to more than one high school, so maybe a profile should be sent from the former school? I think we did that.</p>

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<li>I think it was the common app that asked about multiple schools, but it might have been one school's supplement. I can't remember now.</li>
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<p>Both transcripts will go, I think. The GC is going to send a copy of her official comprehensive transcript home with her today so I can see exactly how they did it.</p>

<p>I didn't even think about the ranking, because that would change as well based on how they calculate the GPA.</p>