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<p>FSU reports a weighted GPA. +1 for AP/IB and +0.5 for any other non-standard course (honors/pre-IB/pre-AP/gifted/accelerated/etc.</p>
<p>Using that scale, a 3.7 is really not very impressive. A standard student with 3 AP classes and half of their remaining classes as honors would recalculate that GPA to a 3.1. The local high school here uses the same weighting system, and the Valedictorian graduated with a 5.5 GPA. Top 50% was around 3.7.</p>
<p>FSU is just playing with the numbers.</p>