<p>So, by filling out scholarship apps and reading various posts, i realized there is a MAJOR discrepency between gpas. one weighted gpa may not even be possible at another school. I notice this a lot, especially since my school seems to be on the low end of weighting (3.93 uw, 4.09 w, w/ 9 honors/AP) which gives a 4.5 for an A in an honors/ap course, 3.5 B, etc. This makes the maximum gpa in my school a 4.25.</p>
<p>I'm curious as to what other schools' systems are, since i'm seeing over 5.0 gpa's.</p>
<p>My schools GPA system goes up to a 100 in a class being 4.33 UW, with a multiplication of 1.1 for AP courses, and 1.05 for Honors courses (not 100% certain if they still do the honors course bonus, but they did when my older sister was in highschool)</p>
<p>So suppose if you took 6 AP courses with at least one lab you could fufill the minimum credits, and if you got a 100 in each of them you could theoreticly land a 4.76.</p>
<p>my schools max gpa is 5.125. Everyone's is out of that since everyone takes the same classes. We actually don't have an unweighted GPA at my school.</p>
<p>Mine is like Patrick W's
like you could theoretically get a 4.76, but it is actually impossible b/c of the course requirements, electives, etc.</p>
<p>but I was reading another thread, and people were saying how for their AP courses, if they got a 4/5 on the AP exam, their teachers would increase their quarter grades from Bs and Cs to As. So to do well all you really have to do is study for that one exam. I think that this is completely unfair and it makes me mad to think that people getting into top colleges may not have actually earned their grades. Corruption in the system. :P</p>
<p>D's hs is like Warblers....4.0 is highest uw, honors classes get 5.0 for A, AP get 6.0 for A. One thing to remember, alamode, when you hear stories of exam grades, keep in mind that most schools have finished their semester/quarter before the AP test scores are even returned, so the story of having quarter grades raised may not have a lot of validity???</p>
<p>at least in my school, teachers can change quarter grades after the quarter is over. I've had cases where my teacher has made calcultion errors in my grade that were only realized after the quarter was over and they've had to change it to the correct grade then.<br>
I know this is impossibl with our legal system but I think the whole application process in regards to gpa would be a lot easier if there was a standardized GPA and wieghting system. </p>
<p>Using my school's GPA, I have a 4.00 UW GPA out of a possible 4.33. Wieghted, I have a 4.34 out of the wierd 4.76 thing</p>
<p>Using the more common GPA system (4=A, 5=A in honors, 6=A in AP), I have a 4.0 UW GPA out of 4.0. Wieghted, It would be a 5.2</p>
<p>If those were the GPAs of two different students at different schools, how could you compare them to find out they got the same grades?</p>
<p>The highest GPA I've heard of at our school is a 4.3 something and that's first in the senior class. Lots of things ask for a copy of the transcript in which case they'll look at the unweighted grades too. Also I would think you could maybe include a school profile if you wanted, then it would be explained? Although if it's a local scholarship they may not ask for this because they might be familiar with the local grading systems.</p>
<p>That's why you have to be careful when you're looking at folks who post things on here like "I have a 4.3 GPA and I didn't get into School X, but my friend who goes to another school has a 3.7 GPA and he got in!"</p>
<p>Every school is different, every weighting system is different, and we take that into consideration when we're looking at applications. There are several high schools here on Long Island whose waiting systems are so severe, they do their students a disservice; we've had students ask why they've been denied admission even though they have a "99 average." Well, when you take out the weighting, it's really only an 83, and when you combine it with your 1070 SATs, there's not much we can do for you...</p>
<p>Chris D'Orso
Assistant Director of Admissions
Stony Brook University</p>