As a junior, I have W GPA of 4.13 on 5.0 scale (not including this year). I am wondering what W GPA is? What does 4.13 mean? If I get a B, will it pull my W GPA down? By the way, if it helps you, I read in the handbook that school weighs 1.0 in honors and AP courses. What does it mean?
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<p>Come on! 15 views and no replies! Please help me.</p>
<p>weight depends on different schools. different schools have different scales they go by, some schools does it by percentage: passing= 70%, most u can get is 100%. other schools does it by 4.0 scale, others go by 5.0, ive even heard of a school that goes up to 8.0. so classes are weighted differently based on its difficulty. AP and IB classes, which are supposedly harder than honors/advanced/non-honors courses has a heavier weight. so instead of goin on a 1-4.0 scale, its on a 1-something scale. basically, weight makes ur gpa higher. but colleges (most colleges) unweight those GPAs anyway. to me, weighted doesnt mean much, because like i said the weighting scale of each school is so different. in my school, we weight based on %, so AP courses are multiplied by 1.06. it just makes up the difference for "hard" classes vs "easy" classes. so someone who has an IB diploma will look better than someone who has a regular diploma. hope that helped. but like i said, most schools unweight ur GPA anyways so it deostn matter. and yes having a B or C or watever will bring ur GPA down but its not going to be THAT bad. alot of people in here have over 4.0 GPA weighted, but what actually matters is the UNWEIGHTED, ask ur guidance for what ur unweighted is. if ur weighted is 4.13 adn ur unweighted is a 3.4, that 4.13 isnt gonna do jack. :) goodluck</p>
<p>Each school IS different. Some don't weight, while others do. Our HS gives 1.0 extra grade points for UC-approved honors and AP courses. We're on a 4.0 scale, so an A in a UC-approved honors course would earn 5.0 grade points, a B would earn 4.0 grade points, and the like.</p>
<p>Our school only gives weighted GPA. AP classes are given +.5. No other weighted elements are given.</p>
<p>it depends on the school, a lot of schools re-calculate your GPA in their own formula, liek for ga tech, a B in honors class gives you a 3.5 rather than 3.0 unweighted, and a B in Ap courses are 3.75, so that makes a huge difference. like in my school, honors are +1 and aps are +2 which means a B in honors would be 4.0 rather than 3.0 and in aps would go up by 2 pts.</p>
<p>do colleges weigh unweighed gpa? because my school doesn't weigh honors and ap classes.</p>
<p>depends on the school, a lot of schools re-calculate your gpa regardless of whether it's unweighted or weighted</p>