weighted it’s 5.1, unweighted it’s 3.95
Kids that take AP classes and get As get a 5.0. A+ is a bit higher than 5.0. That’s why it’s called a weighted GPA.
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I think the question was more about this potentially being a non-standard weighting. In my kid’s school, the base 4.0 scale gets a +0.5 for honors classes and a +1.0 for AP classes. In that setting, you could only get a 5.0 (max) if you got an A in every single class and every class you took through all 4 years was an AP class. That’s a pretty unlikely scenario, assuming that every school tends to have a few non-weighted requirements (eg, PE or financial literacy) and very few schools offer enough AP classes that you could fill 4 years of schedules that way even if you weren’t required to take any non-AP classes.
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Has anyone received their admitted student materials from UW yet? Also, for anyone else admitted into Comp Sci, was there any school-specific gear given in past years?
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For those interested, registration is now open for the Admitted Student Preview on March 26.
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Every school has their own weighting, which is why you always need to look at unweighted and weighted, as well as the details behind these calculations. Some count honors classes in their weighting, and most count APs on a 5.0 scale. If A+ is higher than a 4.0 then those schools have already changed to a non-standard GPA scale. Colleges generally understand this and just look at the actual transcripts and apply their own weightings.
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Same. I’ve never figured how anyone has over 5.0. I met a girl from Colorado who had like a 5.3 and her explanation made no sense but did say her school most offered almost Ap’s
Does anyone know when they send out financial aid information?
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do you mind sharing stats?
4.0/4.8. The usual mix of ap classes. 34 ACT. Tons of activities, sports, volunteering and part time job. I definitely want to be my daughter when I grow up😀
3.93/4.23 OOS white male - waitlisted
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Our school district has a 6.0 scale. They use the exact grade so a 100 in an AP class receives a 6.0, 94 a 5.4, 90 a 5.0 etc. They only use core classes in your weighted GPA and my D22 has a 5.84, meaning she has only taken AP/honors classes and averaged a 98.4 across all 4 years. I am NOT a fan because it creates a ridiculous amount of pressure on grades with no room for error (believe it or not she’s barely in the top 10 of her class). Unfortunately that’s the game that has to be played when class rank is so important here in Texas. Luckily my child has amazing fine arts classes to keep her grounded and sane.
So is there AP/honors PE?
Has anyone read Who Gets In and Why? The author get to sit in on and hear about how UW admissions staff reviews applicants. One thing they said is that they completely recalculate every applicants GPA with their own system. Which makes sense.
Our school has a 4.0 GPA standard but does not weight. So a kid taking all remedial classes can get a 4.0 and a kid taking all AP’s can get a 3.7 so in ranking, the remedial student can be ranked in the top 10 in the class and the all AP student could be ranked 50 in the class. (I’m glad UW doesn’t consider class rank but a lot of universities do.) Also, my S22 had 2 B’s freshman year. In PE. That dropped his GPA as well. But UW doesn’t count PE so that probably helped his “UW GPA.”
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This is kind of the opposite of what I have been seeing in my school. I have a 3.72 Unweighted GPA with 7 AP’S 5 Honors and 2 UW in the high school classes. My extracurriculars were all about diversity. I was waitlisted. My friend with a 4.0 but only 3 AP’s and not that many extracurriculars was accepted.
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I’ve heard of so many in-state kids not getting into UDub. That must be heartbreaking for them. I’m in CA and we have a kid in our high school who had UDub as his dream school. He got denied. Definitely seems like admissions are so much more competitive this year.
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I applied to UW as a Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health major. I was accepted with a pre-major, and to my understanding that was the best case scenario because Nutrition is a major with minimum requirements. Does anybody know whether or not I am guaranteed admissions to a Nutrition major my junior year if I complete the required courses and stay in good standing?
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I feel bad for these kids. Many in state that we know were not thinking of UW as an enitlement or a safey, rather they are just smart local kids who grew up Husky fans and really really wanted to go there. UW was genuinely their first and only choice. Bright, humble, driven, students from Washington. It was a gut punch to them.
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Did everyone who applied RD get a decision? My daughter hasn’t gotten her decision yet. She applied RD.
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Yes, Food Systems is a minimum requirements major: