<p>How do yall weight yalls GPAs.
My school we go each Honors or AP
# of semesters of honors x .02 + GPA=Wegihted GPA</p>
<p>Come on PEOPLE</p>
<p>At the HS my kids attend, if you get an A or B in an AP class, you add 1 point to the grade, so for an A in an AP class, you get a 5 instead of a 4. For a B, you get a 4 instead of a 3. If you have 4 APs & get 3 Bs & 1 A, you'd get a 4.3; if you got all As, you'd get a 5.0 for that quarter. If you take honors, you only add .5 to the grade if you get an A or B, so you can get 4.5 or 3.5 (respectively). If you get a C for any class, you get a 2, whether it's regular, honors or AP.</p>
<p>I believe all colleges & universities recalculate grades based on their system because they know HSs differ in how they calculate.</p>
<p>Not all colleges recalculate the gpa, especially large state universities. It is pretty hard to take all the transcripts in a multitude of different formats, decide which are academic courses and which are honors, and enter it all into the computer for the calculation.</p>
<p>Duke doesn't recalculate, i don't think. </p>
<p>ours does it like HImom, except no 4.5 for honors.</p>
<p>The UCs all recalculate. Heck, who knows what schools are doing. It can be tough for them to compare grades among HS anyway, especially with grade inflation. That is one reason some rely more heavily on standardized tests, because at least that's a "constant" between applicants. Class rank can also be deceptive--if you're at a very competitive HS, you can take extremely rigorous classes, be a NMF & be "middle of your HS class." Happens a lot at my kids' HS.</p>
<p>My high school doesn't weight, but many colleges (I know University of Florida for sure) add 1 point for an AP. Example, if you get a B in an AP, it counts as an A. They add .5 points for Honors and dual enrollment so if you got a B in there it'd count as a B+. They don't weight at all for D's and F's though. A D is a D and an F is an F.</p>