<p>I'm from California</p>
<p>How do you weight your GPA? My school doesn't weight.
I've taken all honors/AP classes...so it it like +1/2 pt for Honors and +1 for AP from 9th grade...or what?</p>
<p>Weighted GPA's are calculated differently across the country.</p>
<p>Many schools weight GPA's similarly to the way you described; my school gives +.5 for AP (+.25 for semester AP class) and no weight for honors. </p>
<p>IMO, GPA is a poor standard to compare applicants. While my school only gives an A (4.0) for 94% or higher, many schools give A's for 90%. Wouldn't this mean I'm at a disadvantage?</p>
<p>Most schools will look at your school's grading scale and weighting system before comparing you to other applicants.</p>
<p>UIUC doesn't really care. Like, they do...but they don't.</p>
<p>Your rank matters seventeen zillion times more.</p>
<p>That's WHY they look at rank, however. They don't go through and re-tally everyone's grades to be the same. Regardless if you have a 3.4 with A's as 5.0 and A's 89%+ or a 2.2 with A's as 4.0 and 94%+, you get put against each other just the same. Rank is a much better judge as to where you stand.
To them, at least.</p>
<p>UIUC relies on class rank not GPA (and thus does not go through any process of weighting your unweighted grades); if high school does not rank it estimates.</p>
<p>As to generally weighting grades, that varies a lot across the country. For example, the UC's have their own weighting system which is provided in its Pathways site, which it uses regardless of how your school weights.</p>
<p>It doesn't seem fair for UIUC to take class rank into consideration so much. A student who goes to a highly competitive school will absolutely have a lower ranking than a student from a different school, despite the fact that the first student probably had to work much harder.</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank, but the top 10% of my class have a 3.9 or better, top 20% is 3.8 or better. There's not a lot of weight added to those either... in the past, we've had multiple valedictorians and they've each shared a GPA of a little over a 4.1.</p>
<p>UIUC also considers competitiveness of high school in addition to class rank.</p>
<p>Well....</p>
<p>Collegeboard.com
* 48% in top 10th of graduating class
* 86% in top quarter of graduating class
* 99% in top half of graduating class</p>
<p>They admit a lot of kids in top 20% of class O.o
The problem with ranking in my class is....those taking the easiest classes and getting 4.0/4.0 (all A's) are ranked 1/500</p>
<p>I realize Im OOS!
So u think I have a shot as CS?
3.7 UW GPA
1380/2050 (sorta low...)
710 math2 (retook) and 770 physics
Rank top 15% Somewhat high competition (Valedictorian going to Ivies)</p>
<p>Good ECs, paid employment at tech company, volunteering to make cancer-resource search-engine</p>
<p>I wouldn't be applying if I had a shot a Berkely or even UCLA, but really, I don't UC GPA = 4.0</p>
<p>I'm not sure how competitive it is for OOS. I imagine you need stats that are higher or in the upper reaches of the published averages for ENG: [SAT: 1310 - 1450 --- Ranking: 88% - 97%].</p>
<p>I'm also applying OOS to the CS dept.</p>
<p>OOS are evaluated for admission on the same basis as in-state, i.e., you do not need higher stats than in-state. Nevertheless, top 15% rank and 1380 SAT is on the low side for CS (whose middle 50% range is actually a little higher than the overall 50% range for the engineering college) and you should consider it a reach but still a possibility. Also be aware that SAT II's are not used for admission.</p>
<p>That admission information is old. This is the latest info on rank acceptance from 2006. </p>
<p>Top 1% 12%
Top 10% 58%
Top 25% 89%
Top 50% 99%</p>
<p>It's straight from UIUC's website.</p>