<p>What matters more in top tier college admissions: weighted or unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>Because my unweighted is about 3.47, whereas my weighted is about 4.9. I know I really have to raise my unweighted, but which matters more?</p>
<p>I heard that each college has its own system of determining GPA. They'll take your transcript and feed it into their own formula and voila, they get the number according to their formula. :)</p>
<p>Some schools (by no means all schools) recalculate GPA. Of the four schools I travel with frequently for group programs, only one (a small, private school) recalculates GPAs. The rest use GPA in the context of the school. How we view your GPA depends on the information supplied about how GPAs are calculated and the range of the class.</p>