Weighted or Unweighted?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Penn State
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<p>I know that grades are the key to acceptance at Penn State. I have taken virtually all Honors and AP classes so I have an unweighted GPA of a little over 3.2 but weighted shoots up to 3.95. Do they look at both? Or just take the highest (I hope)?</p>

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<p>Unweighted, sorry.</p>

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<p>Now, wait a minute…I’m not really sure. I thought it was unweighted.</p>

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<p>If you look at the bubble chart that PSU has posted on their website - the GPA’s on it go well above 4.0, so my guess is that they use weighted GPA’s.</p>

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<p>Thanks Quiet…do you have a link to the bubble chart?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Penn State looks at weighted.</p>

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<p>Here’s the link to the PSU “bubble chart.” (Don’t take the values as gospel, since the data relates to the incoming class of 2008.)</p>

<p><a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart06.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;