<p>At my school, the nominally "unweighted" GPA is as such:</p>
<p>A+ = 4.3
A = 4.0
A- = 3.7
etc.</p>
<p>Many people say that the "unweighted" scale is on a 4.0 scale. Let's say I get an A. Does this imply that my <em>actual</em> unweighted grade is a 4.0/4.3, or a 3.7?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>When you write it down I think you put the scale your school uses…</p>
<p>Weighted is on a 5.0 scale, UW is on a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>If you get an A in a class, your weighted grade is an A of 100% or higher</p>
<p>An A will be equal to a 4.0, and an A+ will be equal to a 4.0.</p>
<p>I think only the school uses your scale for rank, honor roll, etc matters. Other than that, it is useless… convert it to what colleges usually convert it to the regular or most common scale…the college board scale…[How</a> to Convert Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture)</p>
<p>Wait, is [How</a> to Convert Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture) the final word?</p>
<p>If you really wanted to assert the maximum GPA of the school as the maximum GPA on the 4.0 scale, would you not say that 4.3 was the maximum and so a 4.0/4.3 is proportionally equivalent to:</p>
<p>4.0/4.3 = x/4.0?</p>
<p>So a 93-96 in a class will look exactly the same as a 97-100?
EDIT: But they do see the numerical grades on the transcript though, right(?), so this would be falsified?</p>
<p>a weighted GPA is normally on the same scale as an unweighted one. On the common app, if you choose to put your weighted GPA, you select the same scale as if you were putting your unweighted.
Think of it like this: if you have a 3.8 unweighted but a 4.3 weighted, a 4.3 shows that you are going above and beyond. A 4.3 out of 5 doesn’t reflect this. A weighted GPA is on the same scale as the unweighted, but you can do even better than the normal maximum. </p>
<p>This is just what our college counselors told us. They said if we put our weighted GPA, we still put the scale as 4.</p>
<p>Right, I understand the <em>idea</em> of a weighted GPA, but my question (hopefully I can articulate it more clearly this time):</p>
<p>1) My school has a system in which the GPA is calculated where:</p>
<p>A+ = 4.3,
A = 4.0,
et cetera.</p>
<p>2A) At my school, there is <strong><em>no idea of a weighted GPA</em></strong> based on the difficulty of the class. </p>
<p>2B) That is, even if you take AP Calculus BC, it is not weighted any differently than if you take (Normal, “non-AP”) Algebra I.</p>
<p>2C) I recognize that at some schools, an “AP” class would be weighted as 5.0, and a “regulars” class would be weighted as 4.0. Perhaps an “honors” class would be weighted as 4.5. (This was the case at my school last year (a different school)).</p>
<p>3) While the system at my school is unweighted in the traditional sense, it is not on a 4.0 scale. </p>
<p>3A) As noted in 1), the maximum GPA achievable in any class is a “4.3”. </p>
<p>4) Because the “normal” unweighted GPA (by convention) is based on a 4.0, we need to convert this scaling to a 4.0 scale. The maximum in this case: “4.3”, should correspond to the “4.0” proportionally.</p>
<p>4A) So, maintaining this law of proportion, if I were to get an A, in particular a 4.0 on a 4.3 scale, would this correspond to x on a 4.0 scale, such that 4.0/4.3 = x/4.0; Solving, x == 3.7?</p>
<p>Q. (the question!): Is my statement and interpretation of what to write on a college application in 4) and 4A) correct? </p>
<p>More generally:
What do colleges see? What do they evaluate? What do they care about?</p>
<p>Question 2:</p>
<p>Let’s consider the following 2 sets of grades of classes of equal difficulty:</p>
<p>100
100
100
100
100</p>
<p>95
95
95
95
95</p>
<p>So essentially, as both of these warrant a 4.0, there is no difference to colleges between a 95 or a 100?</p>
<p>Presumably though, they see your transcript (and not just the numerical representation you’ve labeled as your "grade-point average), so there would be a noticeable difference, right?</p>