<p>So this is just a random question. For the most part, when people on CC post their stats on any college's admissions thread, do they list their weighted GPA or unweighted? </p>
<p>For example, I'm sure many of you have seen threads where people say things like, ACT- 30 GPA 3.8. So generally would that 3.8 be considered weighted or unweighted??</p>
<p>Some schools don’t weight, so for kids that come from schools that do, they often say something like “3.8 unweighted (4.2 weighted).”</p>
<p>Note that there are many different weighting systems, so weighted GPA may not necessarily mean the same thing to everyone. A common weighting system is to add 1 to the grade points for an AP or honors course (e.g. A = 5, B = 4, etc. for an AP or honors course), but there are numerous other methods. If you list weighted GPA, you may want to specify what the weighting is.</p>
<p>If you are applying to state universities in California, note that they recalculate GPAs with a specific weighting method. Other state universities may also do so.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen, most people give their GPA as unweighted.</p>
<p>Unweighted is calculated differently from weighted, but it seems there are different scales for unweighted as well?</p>
<p>For instance, this is the scale I used to calculated my unweighted GPA:
99-100 => 4.0
97-98 => 3.9
95-96 => 3.8
93-94 => 3.7
91-92 => 3.6
89-90 => 3.5
87-88 => 3.4
85-86 => 3.3
83-84 => 3.2
81-82 => 3.1
80 => 3.0
79 => 2.9
78 => 2.8
etc etc…
60 => 1.0
<60 => 0</p>
<p>Which seems to differ from a lot of other schools.</p>
<p>You can’t just look at a GPA strictly as the number it is and think, “Oh jimmy has a 3.7 and I have a 3.6. He must’ve done better than me.” For example, in my school 95-100 is 4.0, 90-94 3.5, 85-89 3.0, etc. Also other schools might weight honors courses, whereas my school does not. AP courses have a weighted value of .4, so if you got a 92 in an AP class that’s a 3.9. Also looking at the difficulty of your curriculum, many college admissions people have come to my school and said that even if we don’t take honors courses at my school, it’s still regarded as a difficult curriculum because my school doesn’t offer many honors courses and is ranked in usnews gold medal list (don’t want to say where cuz of privacy but it’s towards the middle). GPA is too subjective. Colleges will look deeper into your grades than just your GPA.</p>
<p>great thanks everyone!</p>
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<p>You also can’t assume they are telling the truth either.</p>