<p>nova, the point is that the colleges don’t look at weighted GPAs. They toss out the weighting. So what they looked at for those students were their unweighted GPAs…</p>
<p>OP, it would be unusual for your unweighted GPA to be higher than your weighted one. You said 3.62 for weighted, I think… so likely your unweighted would be south of that. Schools that weight are usually adding points to the grade for AP or honors or IB classes (say an A is 5.0 vs. 4.0, for example).</p>
<p>The colleges wont recalc your gpa, but they will compare you to other applicants from your school, and look at class rank if available. Does your guidance office track admissions results on Naviance? That would give you the best info on where you stand.</p>
<p>Ah… yes, they will recalc your GPA. Most of the top colleges recalc without weights AND toss out your non-academic classes (art, music, gym, etc.). I wouldn’t advise the OP to toss out that stuff, since everyone out here reports just unweighted overall (so you can see where you stand). They are really comparing you across the applicant pool, not just to your high school. Sometimes our little independent high school gets multiple kids into the same selective program in the same year IF they are all highly qualified. </p>
<p>Agree that Naviance is very useful for comparison. Different schools handle differently, but our kids’ high school didn’t release Naviance for us to see until spring of junior year.</p>
<p>Some colleges do recalc GPA. Denison, for example, tosses music, drama, film, etc grades and calculates GPA based on core academic classes only - math, science, English, history, foreign language, etc.</p>
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Right, but I recalculated it (UW) using the scale you gave me, which made it go up. I’m guessing my W GPA would be higher now too if I added in AP and honors extra points.</p>
<p>Oh, and my school doesn’t use Naviance, unfortunately.</p>