<p>Is this based on unweighted GPA or weighted?</p>
<p>Depends on the school, but most likely weighted.</p>
<p>^ ditto..........</p>
<p>our school it's unweighted.</p>
<p>it depends from school to school though.</p>
<p>Its pretty lame if its unweighted</p>
<p>At my school its weighted and I would be bummed if it wasn't and got beat out by a bunch of people taking unchallenging courses</p>
<p>Mine's weighted. Unweighted is ridiculous.. What incentive is there for taking AP's and honors classes??</p>
<p>yeah that is exactly how i feel.
there are about 25 valedictorians who are all ranked 25.
and the second people is automatically ranked number 25 plus however many people come after.</p>
<p>stupidest thing ever.
we send about 100 to UC Berkeley & 50 to HYPSM</p>
<p>Wait, your school sends 50 kids EVERY YEAR to HYPSM? Whoa. Where do you go?</p>
<p>Our school reports both weighted and unweighted. Why don't they all do this?</p>
<p>@wmmk
I smell a troll.</p>
<p>At our school, we don't even weigh courses so its UW for us but then again, our valedictorian has a 98 average UW taking like 10 AP classes anyway. 50 is ridiculous to HYPSM. I'm pretty sure my school sends about 10-15 every year.</p>
<p>The person with the highest weighted GPA in my grade doesn't even have a 4.0</p>
<p>i'm not a troll or whatever.</p>
<p>i don't want to openly go and state which school i go to.
but it's ranked in the top 50 in the nation. PM me if you honestly want to know.</p>
<p>& i was exaggerating when i said our school sends about 50.
however, a lot do go to stanford because we are in-state.
but in all honesty, a lot of kids at our school are successful.</p>
<p>OK, so don't exaggerate next time.</p>
<p>Unweighted at D's school (private). Unweighted at S's school (public --but years ago).</p>