Quick, Silly Question: Am I calculating my friends' UW GPA correctly?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm know its a bit of a silly, common sense question, but I feel like I'm not doing it correctly and I don't want to tell her something that's not true, you know? So I sat down with a friend of mine who is a rising senior and we've been talking about college, etc, and she's giving me tips for my upcoming junior year when she asks me how to calculate her unweighted GPA from freshman to junior year (I told her to look on her transcript, however she doesn't have it & doesnt remember). So I calcualted it just by however I don't think I did it correctly or used the right method. So here are her grades & beside them I put howmuch you get for each grade. The value is on a 4.0 scale (However most of you probably knew that anyway).</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
D -- 1
C -- 2
B -- 3
C -- 2
C -- 2
F -- 0
C -- 2
B -- 3</p>

<p>I averaged the classes (added the values & then divided by the number including the failed class) and got 2.875</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
C -- 2
D -- 1
D --1
F -- 0
D -- 1
B -- 3
B -- 3
A -- 4</p>

<p>I added them all together and divided by the number of classes. My sum was 15, and when I divided by 8, I got 2.875 again.</p>

<p>Junior Year:
A -- 4
A --4
A -- 4
A -- 4
B -- 3
A -- 4
A --4
A -- 4
(she kicked some serious butt Junior year haha)</p>

<p>I added them all together, and divided and got a total of 3.875</p>

<p>After I got the three totals, I added those together, and divided by three for an answer of 3.2 for her unweighted GPA. if it matters, we have four classes a semester, totaling 8 a year.</p>

<p>Did I do this correctly? Because I don't think I did.</p>

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<p>It’s so much easier to start with the transcript! In the above example, you are showing eight grades for the freshman year, for example, which would mean only four academic classes per semester. That doesn’t seem quite right…most students would have five or more academic classes per semester.
Another issue is that some non-academic classes on the high school transcript (and reflected in the high school’s GPA calculation) will not be included by many colleges.</p>

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<p>Since there are two failed classes in this mix, you also need to know if those classes were taken again and those grades were replaced.</p>

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<p>I asked her about the two failed classes, the one freshman year she says was Geometry which she retook Sophomore year and recieved a D. The F her sophomore year she says she took again online that summer, however you apparently don’t recieve a numerical grade that replaces the F, just a pass or fail, in which she passed. I hope that helps a little? </p>

<p>This whole thing is confusing to me honestly, haha.</p>

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<p>For the first two, I got 1.875. (15/8)</p>

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<p>Eep, I was severely off on them then! I went back and double checked my math (I did the division by hand), and I see that you’re correct ICancel. Thank you</p>

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<p>So her overal GPA would be around a 2.5 , 2.6, correct?</p>

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<p>You’re welcome. I just plugged them into my phone. haha</p>

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<p>That’s what I got.</p>

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<p>I get 61 grade points and 24 classes. That’s a cumulative GPA of 2.54.</p>