<p>So I see that so many of us have different ways that we share our GPA's but I was wondering if someone could enlighten me on this...</p>
<p>I always thought that a GPA less than a 4.0 meant that you got at least one B along the way. I have seen several perfect or near-perfect scorers on the SAT with 3.8s and lower. I know this could be because their school is super hard/competitive but I wanted to clear up any confusion I had.</p>
<p>Do colleges look more heavily on the numerical (out of 100) or point average (out of 4)?</p>
<p>If you don't mind sharing, what were your high school GPA numerically, on a 100-pt scale?</p>
<p>On a 4.0 scale, yes, any GPA less than a 4.0 means that you have at least one B. I would say that whichever one they weigh more heavily is whichever one your school gives. My school ONLY records A, B, C, D, E with NO -'s or +'s; that also means that there is no record of what our GPA out of 100 is.</p>
<p>I think, though, that every college has its own system of evaluation regardless of what the GPA on your transcript is, where they recalculate their own GPA for you depending on what classes you take and the grades you get in them so that they can easily compare people from all different kinds of grading systems. I think that ultimately it's the semester grades/quarter grades/trimester grades or whatever that go on your transcript that are much more important than your GPA out of 4.0 or our GPA out of 100.</p>
<p>as of the end of junior year, my gpa is a 103.02 weighted...but idk what it is unweighted (prob around 95 or 96?)...that gpa is prob gonna drop into the 102 region for the midyear report since i had a 100 average in APUSH last year...lol</p>
<p>My school doesn't grade on a 4.0 scale, but I've never received a B in any course, so I'm guessing my gpa would transfer over as a 4.0. Numerically it's around a 97% on a 100-pt scale. But I've also taken four AP's, two Advanced Studies courses, and five Honors Classes.</p>
<p>My school does +/- for our letter grades, except there is nothing higher than an "A." A's count for a 4.0, A-'s a 3.67, etc. decreasing by 0.33. Every one of my teachers counts uses a different percentage. We don't receive weighted grading for our one AP class offered or our 2 honors classes either. So a 4.0 is pretty significant here.</p>
<p>The sad thing is that I have a 3.8, which seems to be respectable by CC standards, and am ranked 20th out of 100 total students (yes, an even 100) in my class. In larger schools with 400-500 students per class, I'd be top 10% easily due to the "student buffer." If only the students here weren't competitive :(</p>
<p>That's an excellent unweighted score - 23hev. My son had 97.something unweighted and 102.something weighted. He was 8th in a class of over 600. He had 3 grades under 90 in English, two of which had honors weighting. (Our school doesn't have an honors freshman English.) I never worried too much about what the exact translation to a 4.0 scale might be since there seem to be so many different systems. From what I understand most colleges look at your grades, the difficulty of the courses and the local context, and then give you some sort of academic ranking.</p>
<p>My son comes from a large HS w/ 700 in his class. Grades are on a 4.0 scale and Gifted classes (above Honors) are weighted on a 4.5 scale and AP courses on a 5.0 scale. As a sophomore, he is #1 in his class w/ a 4.675 GPA. He will take 6 AP courses his JR. year and 7 his Senior year. Don't know how they figure a tough schedule like that and compare it to a school that doesn't offer many AP courses. Would really like to know from anyone who has experienced this. It's all very confusing.</p>
<p>i've taken all honors/AP classes...honors classes get 10% added to the grade while AP classes get 12% added...thats why a 100 avg in APUSH helped me out so much</p>
<p>so lets say i got a 90 on honors english...that translates into a 99 weighted</p>
<p>lets say i got a 95 on AP English...that translates into a 106.4 weighted</p>
<p>Wow! That is wild. I'm moving to your school. I am assuming that when Harvard recalculates its applicant's grades, it reweights them also according to its own scale (not just stripping the weight and leaving it unweighted). That seems like it would make the most sense as rigor is important in the admissions process. I just don't want my high and low A's to be streamlined to just 4.0 or something similar... My gpa is a plus that I may not be able to afford to lose.</p>
<p>At my school, we have an Honors and Gifted program where the Gifted is much harder and students must be certified but the courses receive no added weight or points, etc.</p>