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<p>My Junior D brought home a copy of a transcript last night which she needs to send to some college coaches. It has first semester and then second semester grades unweighted. It does not have any year end average or any mention that the school weights grades or a GPA. Is this typical? I am new to this and expected it to contain more information - not as much as the school profile but perhaps the weighted grades as well.</p>

<p>I think that's a typical transcript if your school doesn't compute GPAs or rank. You should also ask the school for a copy of their "profile". The profile is what the school will send to colleges to help explain what they see in the transcript. It should explain the school policy of ranking and GPAs. It might also explain the options available at your school for IB, AP and Honors classes, we well as a description of courses available. My son's HS also includes a their 4 year historical college selection list. What it doesn't give is a suggestion on weighting credits. So, I'm as confused as you are on the topic of weighting. I suspect the colleges will know what to do with the transcript once they see it. </p>

<p>If you want to try to compute a GPA yourself, you can. Are the grades listed letter or number grades? My confusion is with credit hours. On some applications they want to know how many credit hours a class was. I have no idea how to answer this as this isn't mentioned on the transcript. The only thing other than the grade is a mention of whether the class was "advanced".</p>

<p>I'm sure others can be more helpful.</p>

<p>There are a number of ways to calculate GPA. </p>

<p>For example:</p>

<p>ON 4.3 SCALE (UNWEIGHTED) IT WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS:</p>

<p>A+ 97-100 : 4.3
A 94-96 : 4.0
A- 90-93 : 3.7
B+ 87-89 : 3.3
B 84-86 : 3.0
B- 80-83 : 2.7
C+ 77-79 : 2.3
C 74-76 : 2.0
C- 70-73 : 1.7
D+ 67-69 : 1.3
D 65-66 : 1.0</p>

<p>on a 4 point scale unweighted it would be </p>

<p>A 94-100 : 4
A- 90-93 : 3.7
B+ 87-89 : 3.3
B 84-86 : 3
B- 80-83 : 2.7
C+ 77-79 : 2.3
C 74-76 : 2
C- 70-73 : 1.7
D+ 67-69 : 1.3
D 65-66 : 1.0</p>

<p>For example if you take 4 classes and got grades of an A, A- B+ and C</p>

<p>Your GPA would be calculated as follows (Unweighted and all things being equal)</p>

<p>4 + 3.7 +3.3 +2 = 13</p>

<p>13/4 =3.25</p>

<p>For weighted GPA's some schools will add .5 to the grade for honors courses making the range (raising it to a 4.5 scale ) and 1 for Ap courses (raising it to a 5 point scale)</p>

<p>My advice is to see your guidance counselor so that you know exactly how it is done in your schools.</p>