<p>my school does not weight gpa, but i have 8 ap and 2 honors classes. is there any reliable calculator available to get an estimae of what my weighted gpa would be?</p>
<p>EVERY school weights differently. </p>
<p>Example:
A friend of mine has a child whose school does NOT add weight to any honors classes, only APs, and they get a FULL GPA POINT!!! ANd that is just added right onto the grade for that class. They turn a 3.67 into a 4.67 instantly. Yikes!</p>
<p>My D’s first high school weighted honors and AP, but differently. I can’t remember but it was … .1 and .2 maybe?</p>
<p>But her current school adds the same weight to each…I THINK it’s .2 for each.</p>
<p>But then the calculation is more complex than that…the weight is not just ADDED to the final grade. Without the handbook here I wouldn’t try to paraphrase it but it depends how many honors / A-P classes you took in relation to how many overall classes you took. The resultant factor is used not for each class, but for each semester GPA. This is true of my D’s two schools…but it is not true of all. </p>
<p>Bottom line is that weighting is ONLY beneficial to rank students within a school. Otherwise…it’s comparing apples to oranges.</p>
<p>For instance, if you were at the first school…each of those 8 AP classes would have gone up a whole point, and then factored in.</p>
<p>At the other two schools, it depends when you took them. Say you had 1 honors in first semester, then THAT semester’s overall GPA would have been increased by .1 (or .2). Then, sophomore year you took 2 APs…THAT semester your GPA would have increased by .4. Of course then THAT semester GPA is still averaged with all the others. Again…there isn’t really any set “formula” because they’re all different and relate only to fellow classmates. Especially because a 4.8 in some schools (one that doesn’t offer many APs anyway, and has a low weighting system) would be a GREAT score. But, at our school it’s not even in the top…eh…5% because we offer a ton of AP/honors and everyone takes as tough a schedule as they can.</p>
<p>well my school offers 11 and i took 8, and we send maybe 4-5 kids to elite schools every year(were a rather small rural school) so im assuming my gpa will get bumped up quite a bit by colleges</p>
<p>R124687, i believe its .02, not .2</p>