<p>Our school doesn't weight honors classes. Only AP/IB classes are weighted. So I wondering if other schools have weighted honors classes, wouldn't these students have an unfair advantage over me?</p>
<p>And what's wrong with CC's search engine?</p>
<p>Every school figures out weighting differently. Our school gives the same weighting to both honors and AP while other schools give a heavier weighting to APs. It does affect class rank, but most elite colleges will look at your transcript and weight the courses however they see fit.</p>
<p>Most colleges will look more carefully at your class rank than at your GPA in order to avoid this type of unfairness.</p>
<p>No idea about the search engine. :)</p>
<p>The schools are all different. At our son's school (private "elite" Wash DC) they do not give out GPAs OR Ranks. The grade you get is the grade that shows up on the transcript. Advanced classes are not coded as such but your transcript does shows HONORS for honors classes (i.e he is taking pre-calc honors right now) and AP for advanced placement.The admis offices will take it from there.</p>
<p>At my high school, girls "elite" prep I notice my transcript did weight for RANK. So I graduated 8 out of 99 students because I was in their "Honors" program with ten other students for 11th and 12th grades. My GPA was 3.4 but my rank was top 10%. (8%). </p>
<p>The thing that students need to realize (disclaimer--actual adcom experience with Bowdoin--sat on its admi committee for 2 years) is that all top /elite schools "know" your high schools. They know the GPA and RANK procedures, which schools inflate grades, who deflates...... etc.</p>
<p>Not only do they all know the high schools, but most schools actually recalculate their own GPA based on your transcript and not on the GPA that your school reports. That is to say, I don't think it really matters what your GPA is so much as what your transcript itself actually says.</p>
<p>How do you convert weighted to non-weighted?</p>
<p>Son has 5.33/5.0</p>
<p>Is this a 4.0 non-weighted?</p>
<p>"Most colleges will look more carefully at your class rank than at your GPA in order to avoid this type of unfairness."</p>
<p>That makes no sense, if one school has no weighting and one school has heavy weighting, then class ranks can be significantly affected. Shouldn't they primarily look at the average out of 100 along with the course title and decide for themselves?</p>
<p>Is it just me or is CC's search engine not working?</p>