<p>If the OP has weighted GPAs like my high school, a few 5.0’s would easily get them there.</p>
<p>UW OR W can get you the 4.0 required to be class rank 1, as hazelorb said.</p>
<p>Okay that does not make sense to me, if you did not have a 4.0 UW before how could you gain one.</p>
<p>Thats like getting a B on a math test and then ending up with a 100% at the end of the quarter, once you get that B, no matter how many more A’s you get on w/e assignments you lost the chance to get 100%</p>
<p>Suppose your future tests had extra credit. This is in essence what a 5.0 does to GPA’s.</p>
<p>There are some schools where the best possible GPA increases with each year. I don’t have any profiles in front of me to serve as example, but it’s definitely possible. Not common, but possible.</p>
<p>Okay I guess your school mixes UW and W GPA</p>
<p>Ohhhhhhhh I see what you are asking.
I think what the OP meant was:
Whether you have a 4.0 from taking all non honors classes, or a 4.x (or even a 4.0 or below) with classes that carry extra weight, the ranking is all the same. Like, a person who has a 4.0 from honors classes averaging out a B here and there is not any better or worse off in the rankings than a person who never took an honors class and just has all A’s. I’m unclear on whether or not >4.0 all gets re-named to be “4.0” and everyone at that mark is equal rank (what it sounds like) or not.</p>
<p>@hazelorb, lol thanks for trying to explain it but I guess its not computing with my brain that once you get a B, or dont have a 4.0 UW as the original poster, how could you possible get a 4.0, back to my analogy with the math test, which i said earlier, and there are no 5’s in UW GPA, ie not extra credit</p>
<p>I don’t think he said his GPA was UW. I think it is weighted even for rank.</p>
<p>A 4.0 WGPA is low though, ok I am not going to try and understand this, GL all applicants</p>
<p>The whole idea of weighting GPAs is that a 4.0 average in weighted classes should be equivalent to a 4.0 in nonweighted classes (ie. the amount of work to get a B in an honors/AP class is the same amount of work to get an A in a non-honors class). Whether this is true or not is up to debate?</p>
<p>C in an AP class should = an A in on level class if you ask me</p>