<p>I have a friend who is a senior and has just finished the college admission process. His highschool gpa was only around a 3.5, but he consistenly took online and local college courses, as well as some high school courses online, throuhgout high school. Hes gotten all A's in all of the extra courses he took outside of schools.</p>
<p>When it was time to send college applications in, he talked to his college counselor and what she did was average his high school gpa with his gpa of classes taken outside of school. So he had a 3.75 GPA, and this is what was on his secodnary school report. THe school does not rank, btw.</p>
<p>Have any of you heard of schools doing this? Is it common?</p>
<p>Will Harvard or any other top school have a problem with this?</p>
<p>I've heard this happen before. If you take classes outside of school they are in most cases averaged into your normal high school classes.</p>
<p>This happens in most places. Furthermore, Harvard will recalculate his GPA according to their own formula, so it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>^ Would they seriously take the time to do that?</p>
<p>I don't think H honestly cares that much about GPA, whether weighted or unweighted, they're looking more at your individual class grades and what you did really well in. </p>
<p>I know I had a 3.88 weighted GPA (but all A's in my 4 AP's, 5's on those tests plus several A's in college courses outside school) and was deferred and then waitlisted with a 3.95 weighted in April. By any indication, my weighted GPA and class rank are below what Harvard typically will waitlist, but I think it was pretty clear that my grades in lower-division classes (which brought my GPA down) were "low" simply because I was bored in them...and that I had done abnormally well, by any measure, with my college-level coursework. </p>
<p>So no worries.</p>