Does anyone know how colleges (Ivies et al) consider Project Lead The Way (PLTW) courses when calculating one’s weighted GPA? We get college credit for the courses we take (for my state, it is from the University of New Haven) and I will take 4-5 by the end of my senior year (finishing junior year right now).
My school only weights PLTW AP Computer Science Principles as an AP, but we also do the weird +0.05 for honors courses and +0.07 for AP courses, so my school’s weighted GPA is pretty low compared to my 5.0 scale version.
0.5 or 0.05 for honors? 0.05 seems insignificant and what is the point to weigh?
what grade in your school can give 5.0? can you give example
I don’t really understand how my school calculates weighted GPAs, but since many colleges calculate a standard version on the 5.0 scale, I wanted to know how PLTW courses affect it. I’ll ask my guidance counselor how weighted GPAs work. I think the 0.05/0.07 might just add to the cumulative average instead of being averaged again, since people in my school have gotten 5.0s (not sure if higher) before.
I think you’re asking how a college that recalculates the weighted GPA based on their own system might treat these classes. If that’s what you mean, they most likely treat them the same way that they treat dual-enrollment classes, because you will have a transcript from UNH listing specific classes with grades, just as you would if you were taking any of the UConn dual-enrollment classes that appear on a UConn transcript. Incidentally, you will most likely have at least class where UNH does not offer credit - check the other affiliated colleges to see if you can get credit elsewhere - you are not restricted to UNH. RIT offers credit for Civil Engineering & Architecture, as an example. You’ll have to follow their rules about when to request it (by December following course completion. And of you’re taking other AP classes, register at College Board by June 30 to for the AP+PLTW designation (a type of AP Scholar Award), so you can list it on your applications.
At my school, most PLTW courses are weighted as normal classes. If you get above a certain score on the final, you get credit for a SUNY school (State University at New York). If you really wanted to know, try asking a school guidance counselor or your PLTW teacher.
I figured out how my school calculates weighted GPAs. They take your cumulative and add 0.05 for honors courses and 0.07 for college courses. So that’s why my WGPA is a 5.0 right now.
As for the PLTW courses, most of them are honors weighted but my teacher wants to see if the harder ones can count as college courses.