<p>Hey Guys,
umm, maybe this is the wrong section of CC to post on, but how do you calculate your UW GPA? Like what scale do you guys use?</p>
<p>Unweighted is always A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0 etc.</p>
<p>I use a 4.0 scale. For every A, it's four points, for every B three, Cs are 2, Ds are 1 and F is 0. Add all your classes' scores up for a semester/year, divide by the number of classes you took, and that's the uw GPA.</p>
<p>Ex. Let's say my grades were:
English B
Math A
Science A
History B
P.E. C</p>
<p>So that's (3+4+4+3+2)/5=16/5=3.2 uwGPA</p>
<p>AP Courses usually count for A=5, B=4, C=3, so that contributes to the weighted GPA (that's how you wind up with 4.1+)</p>
<p>Weighted GPA or Unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>I think Unweighted is. Weighted looks impressive, but Unweighted shows the Bs that got buried beneath the AP boost.</p>
<p>Cool, any other thoughts on this? @ my school, taking extra non-AP/Honors classes (@ a local CC that doesn't offer honors) actually lowers weighted GPA.</p>
<p>Same with us.</p>
<p>But for GPA's, we actually multiply the numerical equivalent of the grade earned (4/3/2/1/0) times the number of credits earned (all sciences plus AP Calc are six credits except AP's are seven) for each class and add them up. Then we divide by the number of credits attempted.</p>
<p>To use tkm456's example:</p>
<p>English B --> 3 * 5 = 15
Math A --> 4 * 6 = 24 (assuming it's AP Calc)
Science A --> 4 * 7 = 28 (assuming it's AP)
History B -->34 * 5 = 15
P.E. C --> 2 * 5 = 10</p>
<p>92/28 = 3.29 GPA</p>
<p>It basically just makes courses with more credits (science and Calc) worth more, which rose the GPA in this case. Usually they bring our GPA's down :P.</p>
<p>wait, so thats the unweighted scale that colleges use.. 4.0=A 3.0=B 2.0=C? What if you took a class over correspondance or summer.. how do they weigh that in?</p>
<p>Depends on the school. My high school doesn't take into account courses taken at other schools or colleges, but I know that some others do.</p>