<p>Dear fellow CCers,
I think it's pretty safe to say I'm not the only one who noticed this trend, but I am just astonished by the number of people on CC who post their weighted GPA without specifiying what it's out of. In fact, I believe the last time I found a chances thread that included this fundamental piece of information was about three months ago. </p>
<p>Come on guys, If I tell you my weighted GPA is 4.3, what does it mean to you if you don't know whether it's out of 4.5, 4.66, or a 5.0? the system varies from school to school... </p>
<p>Just throwing it out there.</p>
<p>It also might be more productive to give UW gpa first anyway.</p>
<p>It's not that easy to say what your weighted gpa is out of because the highest w. gpa that could possibly get at a school would rarely be a round number since most schools have some required classes that are not weighted or unweighted classes that may be necessary prior to taking a weighted class. So the only way we can give a real "out of" number would be to know the highest weighted gpa that someone in the school has, and how the **** should we know. </p>
<p>Most people do give the unweighted gpa with their stats and thats easy enough to understand.</p>
<p>^Dont' assume it's like that for a huge group, calculation can be easier than you'd think. For example, at my school the max APs is 8 (all classes), the award for an AP is 5.0. Therefore it's simple to deduce that 5.0 is the max. Also, you don't have to know the highest GPA earned, just the highest possible, in other words, even if no one has all the prerequisites to take, say, 8 AP classes, as long as it's possible, then we can make a max GPA.</p>
<p>I doubt that any school allows students to take all AP classes for all four years of high school, arent their health/PE requirements in most schools, so i dont think a 5.0 is possible.</p>
<p>It's not that you can take all APs all four years at all, it's that the max APs you can take come junior year becomes 8 out of 8 classes because all the prerequisites are gone. I wasn't really thinking about a whole cumulative max, just a max regarding what the AP award is. Instantaneously as a junior, I could have a 5.0. However, if APs awarded 4.3, I could have a 4.3 max at the moment. It wouldn't be necessary to calculate the max based on a lot of cumulative stuff cuz you really only need a general idea when saying what the GPA is out of. If not max GPAs, then at least the max APs or the amount awarded for APs (like 5 points vs 4.5).</p>