<p>Do college look at every single grade you got for each class for every semester for every single year of high school or do they simply just look at the average grade you achieved that year for that class?</p>
<p>Ok, that seems really confusing, but i.e.</p>
<p>if your grade report for Chemistry looks like this:</p>
<p>Chemistry Semester 1: C+
Chemistry Semester 2: B+
Chemistry Overall: B</p>
<p>Would they look at every semester grade or just the average overall run down of your grades?</p>
<p>Every admissions office is different. A lot of colleges recalculate your gpa according to their own formula. They each will apply their formula to your transcript.</p>
<p>What your transcript will show will depend on how your high school calculates gpa. For example, at my sons’ high school, the gpa is calculated at the end of each semester and that is what the transcript shows. Students get 1/2 credit each semester for a full year class. (although if students do not pass the required final exam at the end of the year they do not pass for the year).</p>
<p>My high school allegedly doesn’t calculate GPA. Does that mean the universities themselves would just calculate it according to their own formula?</p>
<p>Most likely.
For example, one of my son’s colleges recalculated the gpa using the 5 core subjects only, unweighted, and with consideration of plusses and minuses; it then assigned a separate score for difficulty/rigor of curriculum.</p>