<p>I see UW GPA come out to a perfect 4.00 in some ppls stats????</p>
<p>Does that mean, that person have gotten a 100 on every single term on every single classes?</p>
<p>I am seeing ridiculously high grades for UW GPA, and I dont understand. I guess its my school, but no one in my school (225 per class) has a 4.00.</p>
<p>My unweighted is 88 and weighted is 98. Now this makes me look retarded but its not the case for I am in the top 10 percent. I am considered smart in my school, I take seven APs and in NHS. </p>
<p>What I am confused about (more angry) is the fact that apprantely I go to a competitive private school where grades are hard to earn, and I see people getting 4.00UW in other schools? </p>
<p>Sorry for me ranting but I am just not happy-to euphamize it..But I am hopeful that colleges are not dumb and know about this as well. How do they work this out???</p>
<p>My school goes by the 100 ( I hate my school for doing this), The way 100 to 4.00 conversion work is absoulutely ridiculous and almost impossible to do by a student. I have no idea what my school is thinking by using this elementary system…and even more confused on how college admissions work with it and compare it to school like yours</p>
<p>So, whether you finish the course with a final grade of 100 or 90 (or anything in between), you still get an A, and you still get a 4. Do that in every class and you can very easily end up with an UW 4.0.</p>
<p>Don’t worry- your high school will send a profile to the colleges you apply to that includes student stats/test scores/GPA/course offerings/etc and they will be able to judge your achievements in the appropriate context. Colleges understand that GPA’s are inconsistent from school to school. You will be judged by how you did at your particular school.</p>
<p>My graduating class has 22 people with 4.0 UW GPAs. Unfortunately, my school does not weight GPA or rank, so these 22 students, most of whom have never taken an honors or AP class, share the first in class title, while I drop to #23 with a 3.97.</p>
<p>Getting straight A’s isnt as hard as it sounds. I have an uw 4.00, and at my school there are 3 other people with a 4.00, one of them is in my class. It doesnt recuire anything else than hard work.</p>
<p>We had three people who took hard classes and ended up with a 4.0 (with a class of 610ish). For us, we just need to get higher than a 93% in each class for this. We don’t have weighted grades, though, so class rank is bs.</p>
<p>I mean yea there are few ppl who have f-ed up ranking system like behind the lens and evertheoptimist…</p>
<p>in my school you get +5 for Accerlated, +10 for honors and +15 for AP courses. But it is pretty hard to excel in honors and AP level. My school really takes class rigor seriously and makes it hard</p>
<p>There’s definitely an extreme imbalance of GPA from school to school, which is why rank has become a lot more important than unweighted GPA and why SAT scores are so valuable (they normalize each applicant’s statistics).</p>
<p>I regret going to such a competitive school. I could’ve been Valedictorian in my public school…its funny that they call it college prep school, cause it really kills your GPA…</p>
<p>I go to a noncompetitive public school. Last year, we had something like ten valedictorians. Yes, TEN. Because everyone with a GPA at or above 4.0 is called that at our school.</p>
<p>Do you really think that one of those valedictorians looks any more impressive to a college than you do?</p>
<p>We only have one valedictorian, one with highest GPA. Unless the guidance counselor puts that anyone over 4.00 is valedictorian, colleges will never know. Valedictorian basically</p>
<p>OP: Colleges understand that a 4.0 in a challenging college-prep school is not the same thing as a 4.0 in a regular-track school. When you apply to colleges, your GC will be asked whether you’ve taken the most rigorous classes offered at your school, and what the school’s profile is regarding test scores etc. Since you’ve taken the most rigorous classes at a rigorous school, and done well in them, colleges will understand that you’re a superior student. </p>
<p>BTW, don’t spend too much time reading other students’ stats here on CC. Personally, I’m not sure they’re all completely <em>ahem</em> accurate, and I believe in some cases they are posted merely to make the poster feel good about themselves at the expense of people like you. Don’t compare yourself to others; do your own best and you’ll be just fine.</p>