Posting weighted GPA

<p>My D's high school weights GPA's with the highest on the scale being a 5.875. My daughter's unweighted GPA is a 4.0 and her weighted is a 5.154. On the common app it only gives you options of whole numbers on the GPA scale. So 5.154 out of 5 is inaccurate as is 5.154 out of 6. Would she be better off just putting down the unweighted 4.0? Thanks!</p>

<p>No, you can are asked to put the weighted GPA in the additional information section if your school uses a scale not offered on the drop-down menu.</p>

<p>Best of luck to you,

  • Mike</p>

<p>I would put her UW GPA out of 4.0. Almost every college removes high school weighting anyway–some apply their own weighting though. Her transcript will show she took challenging classes.</p>

<p>I respectfully disagree with SteveMA. Colleges do not remove weighting (they do do they own weighted, too though) as they want to see how each student did in their high school. Here is a quote from the common app:</p>

<p>“You should report your current Class Rank and GPA, even if they might change later in the school year. If your school does not rank, select “None” from the dropdown menu. If your school calculates both weighted and unweighted Class Rank/GPA, report the weighted value. If your school does not calculate a cumulative numerical GPA, or if it uses a GPA scale that is different than the options available in the dropdown menu, leave the Cumulative GPA field blank.”</p>

<p>How do they assign weights to classes though, my school assigns a +1 to honors, adv and AP’s making our wgpa out of 5, but since some graduation requirements are only regular it is impossible to get a 5.0, the max is like 4.7something but the weighting system is still out of 5.0, if your school weights out of 5.875 i would be thorougly suprised. Colleges know that most schools it isn’t possible to achieve a perfect weighted score so I would make sure that it isn’t really out of 6</p>