<p>I'm a sophomore and have a 3.7 GPA at the moment how hard will it be to raise it to a 4.0 in the next year?</p>
<p>You can never have a 4.0 cumulative GPA (on a 4.0 scale), if that’s what you mean.</p>
<p>Well isn’t a 4.0 a 95-100? I have s 92 cumulative with only one weighted course as all our classes are honors so none are weighted </p>
<p>No, that’s not how it works haha. </p>
<p>On most high school transcripts:
each A is 4.0
each B is 3.0
each C is 2.0
each D is 1.0
and F is no points</p>
<p>To know your overall GPA you need to find the average (add all your grades then divide it by the number of grades you have)
ex) If you have a total of 6 A’s 4 B’s and 2 C’s then that’s 4 points for each A and 3 points for each B and 2 points for each C, and 12 grades total. (4+4+4+4+4+4)+(3+3+3+3)+(2+2)= 40. Now divide that by the number of grades you have, so 40/12= an overall GPA of 3.33.</p>
<p>Because you must have already received a B or C in a class, you can never receive and overall GPA of 4.00, but with most school, taking an AP/Honors class gives you some extra points. For instance, my school gives doesn’t give and extra point for honors classes but does give an extra 0.50 points each AP class. That’s the only reason why I have a 4.0 on my transcript (my school doesn’t go over 4.0, but some do), but really have a 3.89 because I’m a sophomore right now and received 16 A’s and 2 B’s and took 5 AP classes so far so it evened out.</p>
<p>Anyways, to answer your original question, halcyonheather is right. You will never receive a true 4.0, but you can still raise it pretty high, but you better hurry because the farther you get into high school the harder it is to bring that average up.</p>
<p>I hope this helped.</p>
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No. If you ever got anything other than an A, you can’t have a (cumulative unweighted) GPA of 4.0 on a 4.0 scale. Unweighted means honors and AP classes count the same as regular classes. Colleges don’t care very much about your weighted GPA because all high schools calculate it differently. </p>
<p>@Nye7777 is correct, but also remember that:
- Some schools have grading scales with minus grades, usually with A- = 3.7, B- = 2.7, C-=1.7, etc.
- Half-credit classes only count half as much, so in a half-credit class A = 2.0, B = 1.5, C = 1.0, etc.
- Most colleges take the GPA on your transcript at face value. They’ll either recalculate your GPA using their own methods or they’ll just eyeball your transcript to see what kind of letter grades you got overall. </p>