I see a lot on here about colleges recalculating weighted GPA and that makes total sense to me given the various weights schools give for HN/AP/IB etc. But do they always take the unweighted at face value? I’m just curious because my D21’s school has some policies that seem to hold the students back a little. For instance as a freshman she took AP Human Geography, it was a year long course on a block schedule (met every other day all year) and she got 0.5 credits for the A she earned, compared to the sophomore year she took AP US History for the same full year course and got 1.0 credits for the A she earned for the same work. I’ve been wondering what colleges think when they see inconsistencies like that from schools.
They do take the UW GPA at face value for the most part but also look at the HS Profile to see what the general difficulty level of courses is like. They also use the GC’s assessment of schedule difficulty to peg your student and use class rank to see how that student compared to others. Colleges will try to use all the data they get to discern what they can about your child.
My D’s school had some weird things like that too. And no difference in weighting between AP and honors courses. That’s all in the school profile though along with the GC’s assessment of course rigor. All of that gets look at!
The more selective teh school is the more likely they are going to use the unweighted GPA because there is already an expectation that you are taking the most challenging courses your school offers and are doing well
Our HS only provides a weighted GPA. Most colleges re-weight everyone’s GPA to standardize them. Many give one extra point for AP and .5 for honors. The most competitive schools want to see almost all A’s and the most rigorous schedule. They can see what’s offered at your school by looking at the school profile that the GC sends.
They don’t; they file it under “It is what it is.” That’s where the school profile and the secondary school report come in handy to help the AO make sense of it all.
Many school’s have policies that restrict one way or another.It’s nothing to worry about.