Q regarding those average GPA of accepted people listed on the CMU Website

<p>Is that a weighted GPA or unweighted?</p>

<p>I live in NoVA right now where a 94 gets us an A and only AP or IB classes give us an </p>

<p>extra boost of 0.5 on our GPA. Our county doesn't give a **** about our honors or preIB </p>

<p>classes.The highest GPA i've ever seen in our county was 4.23 or so and this is basically a </p>

<p>straight Awith all the possible AP and IB classes. Now I used to live in NC back in middle </p>

<p>school.They get 1.0 for honors and 2.0 for AP classes added to their GPA and a 93 is an A. </p>

<p>(trust me 1 point makes a big difference. If i go there right now i'll be a straight A student </p>

<p>rather than a B+/A student). so these people will have higher GPAs. Did CMU post </p>

<p>unweighted GPAs or did they take these into account and came up with their own way of </p>

<p>calculating weighted GPAs?</p>

<p>by the way i don't mean there are AP courses in middle school. i was just pointing out that i lived in a county that had such a grading scale</p>

<p>I can't remember which college we were visiting with daughter but they explained that they actually didn't weight GPA's at all but recalculated them out of 4.0 scale and then looked at the AP courses separately. That made a lot of sense to us (we don't give extra points for honors courses either) and it would not surprise me if CMU does that as well.</p>

<p>I've always assumed that's an unweighted GPA in academic courses. There are too many weighting systems all over the country to be able to combine local ones. Our weighting system weight honors and APs equally - and they only add five percent more than regular classes. (So a 90 becomes a 94.5 for example.)</p>

<p>CMU told me they recalculate the gpa with consideration of your high school's rigor, and the coursework you take compared to the coursework your hs offered.</p>

<p>To OP's question, I feel CMU and other colleges post stats of accepted students, the stats of the actual enrolled students are probably lower.</p>

<p>oh you are right since many people that have higher stats probably went to better schools.</p>

<p>Focus more on the average % rank than the average GPA. The average gpa really says nothing about your chances.</p>