<p>I have a question about weighted GPA. What exactly gets calculated, AP classes alone or AP classes along with your other classes? So say you're taking an AP class. Would your regular and honors classes get calculated under unweighted GPA and your AP class with the weighted GPA or what?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Who is doing the weighting?
If it is the HS, then all classes are included in the wGPA (at least in most schools). Sometimes Honors classes are weighted as well.
If it is the college, then normally the core classes are the ones accounted for in GPA and can be weighted depending on what college admissions committee sees them.</p>
<p>I'm talking about the high school. So would your unweighted GPA stay the same once you start taking APs?</p>
<p>inquire your counselor about it...at my school honors are not weighted..so it varies froms school to school.</p>
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<p>uwGPA does not depend on level of class.</p>
<p>So if I'm taking AP classes, would my unweighted GPA stay the same and my weighted GPA be the one that changes?</p>
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<p>If your school is like most schools that I know of then your unweighted GPA does indeed contain all of your AP classes, but all of those classes have the same number of quality points as regular classes. IE if an B is worth 3 pnts for a regular course at your school and you made a B in your AP class then your AP class would give you 3 pnts. Likewise, your weighted GPA too contains all of your classes, but in the weighted GPA your AP and honors classes are worth more quality points than your regular ones.</p>
<p>Short answer: Yes taking AP classes can help your unweighted GPA, but not anymore so than a regular class.</p>
<p>So even if you're taking AP classes your UW GPA can still change?</p>
<p>But only by getting better grades than you have been.</p>
<p>Yes it can, but it will change as if the 'AP' weight was absent; a A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0 as in a regular class.
For example:
I take seven classes (I have removed Honors classes for simplicity):
Chinese CP (A,4) (A,4)
BC Calculus AP (A,4) (A,5)
Health CP (A,4) (A,4)
English Composition AP (A,4) (A,5)
Physics AP (B,3) (B,4)
Psychology AP (A,4) (A,5)
Macroeconomics AP (B,3) (B,4)
(The unweighted value is left, weighted right.)
Thus my uwGPA is (4+4+4+4+3+4+3)/7 = 3.571
and my wGPA is (4+5+4+5+4+5+4)/7 = 4.428</p>
<p>The answer to your last question is yes, both uwGPA and wGPA change.</p>
<p>unless of course your unweighted is already 4.0 in which case only your weight GPA would change</p>
<p>So if my UW GPA right now is a 4.0 then only my weighted GPA changes?</p>
<p>BTW, thank you everyone for helping me with my confusion.</p>
<p>weighted gpa: 5 point scale for ap classes
unweighted gpa: ap classes are treated like regular classes (no gpa boost)</p>
<p>Yes, Olive_Tree, unless you get lower than an A in any one of your classes.</p>
<p>All right, thank you.</p>