<p>How does Michigan calculate gpa for admission purposes? I'm trying to figure out what my gpa would be.</p>
<p>take only your academic classes from soph/juior year, drop the plusses and minuses, A=4, B=3, etc</p>
<p>Thanks. What, besides the obvious ones, are considered academic classes?</p>
<p>basically anything that falls into math, social studies, science, and english..so no gym or art or computer type classes (unless its computer programming..that may count..)</p>
<p>Spanish?????</p>
<p>Spanish is a foreign language class and therefore is counted as an academic class.</p>
<p>So electives such as Creative writing would not count?</p>
<p>I am asking because our area's A = >94% and B+ = 90 to 93% and my s has quite a few B+'s (93.4 or so).</p>
<p>U of M goes by whatever they see on the transcript...if they see a B/B+/B- they'll count it as a 3.0...</p>
<p>What if your school uses numbers, not letter grades, and their GPA is given in numbers, not out of 4.0. Would a 90 or above (unweighted) grade be an A for UM, thus a 4 in their calculation? Or do they cut off an A somewhere other than 90 (90 or above is what I have always been taught is an A --sometimes with + or -, but seems as if that is not the case everywhere)? Also, how do you convert a number grade to a 4.0 system for other colleges, for example if student has a 95 average, what is that with a 4.0 system?</p>
<p>I would like to know this as well please.</p>
<p>If there are no letter grades on the high school transcript, I would suspect Michigan would go with the 90+=A=4.0, because that is the general rule for most high schools. So Michigan will take each class and with the 90=A=4.0, 80=B=3.0 etc. system, will compute what the overall gpa is by averaging all the classes. I hope that answered your question.</p>
<p>does anyone know if schools like wisonsin, northwestern, or chicago do the same type of gpa recalculation??</p>
<p>I don't think Chicago recalculates your grades. They just look at them in context and then read the super cool essays you wrote from their super cool prompts. There isn't much of an emphasis on numbers, just how you come through on your essays and your extracurriculars.</p>
<p>does umich weight ap's?</p>
<p>nope, there are no weighted grades according to them. an A is a 4.0, a B is a 3.0..no matter if the class was AP or regular.</p>
<p>aww...yeah, that would help A LOT, but whatever...do you think a 3.78ish is way too low?</p>
<p>3.78 weighted or unweighted? Also, michigan only counts sophomore and junior year in their GPA and only academic courses (including foreign language).</p>
<p>3.78 uw , im assuming thats what it is going to be around calculating it the umich way, but next year is my junior year so its not for sure yet, just guesses....and all my classes are academic soph. and junior year</p>
<p>If i'm already taking US History course, would they also count U.S. govt and politics if i took in the same year when calculating my gpa. what about a class like journalism if im also taking a regular english class?</p>