<p>How do they figure out your high school cumulative, and when college's ask for gpa are they implying cumulative? How can you make your cum higher? For example say a student did bad freshamn year received a 2.5cum then sophmore received a 3.3 gpa(quater grade) but cum was a 2.7. Junior year the kid has a 3.689gpa(what is the kid's cum), and even though the kid gets good grades, why doesnt the cum rise??I am just really confused about gpa and cum, like can somebody pleasse explain this concept to me.</p>
<p>cumulative does rise.. it went from 2.5 to 2.7 b/c more grades are involved the average rises slowly.. not to be rude but If you cant figure something that simple out im not sure if you should be thinking about college</p>
<p>terrybhs06...you don't need to be so rude about it....</p>
<p>Ok, so they got a 2.5 freshman year and a 3.3 for the first quarter of your sophomore year. The cumulative GPA will be as follows:</p>
<p>(2.5 x 4) + (3.3 x 1) = 13.3/5 = 2.66, which rounds off to 2.7
Here, basically you take each GPA term grade and add it together, and divide by the number of terms. Each term grade is weighted equally, so a 3.3 in one term sophomore year won't cause the cumulative average to rise to a 2.9 (the average of the two), as I'm guessing you expected it to. </p>
<p>As for the Junior year cumulative GPA, I can't calculate that until I know what the kid got on each of the four terms of sophomore year.</p>
<p>Assuming that the kid was consistent and got a 3.3 all four terms (or at least averaged to a 3.3), it would be as follows:</p>
<p>(2.5 + 3.3 + 3.629) / 3 = 3.143 cumulative over the three years.
Here, I didn't multiply by four because we were dealing with years, not terms. For contrast, if the student got, say, 2.5 frosh year, 3.3 soph year, and 3.629 for the first term of junior year it would go as follows:</p>
<p>(2.5 x 4) + (3.3 x 4) + (3.629 x 1) / (9 total terms) = 2.981 cumulative GPA. </p>
<p>Does that make sense?</p>
<p>actually... its based on the number of attempted credits not just term, although term gives you a rough estimate it will be off a little bit</p>